On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 11:17:13 +0000, Mick wrote: > > https://xkcd.com/936/ > > Not strictly true ... the crackers would probably use rainbow tables > attacks first. Also, it isn't fair to compare an 11 character passwd > against a 25 character passwd. For the *same* number of characters > used in any given passwd, a random lower/upper/numerical/symbol passwd > will provide an exponentially higher degree of difficulty in cracking > it with brute force, than one which uses only lower case dictionary > words. Anyway, these days many attacks are focused on OS or hardware > vulnerabilities which have been baked in by design, rather than brute > force attacks.
I'm not sure xkcd is meant to be taken that seriously... -- Neil Bothwick Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again
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