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I've been on a few BBSes, quite a while back now, and believe me, some of
the passwords that I came up with were quite alphanumeric, and rather
random.
A hacker's chance of guessing a random, or even semi-random, password is
therefore theoretically rather small. This would make any kind of
brute-force attack rather obvious looking, and moreover, rather easily
traceable. This therefore is a sufficient deterrent to would-be hackers. I
would rather live with a sufficient deterrent to hackers than an
insufficient nightmare which keeps Todd constantly checking with law
enforcement agencies.
Keep up the good work mate!
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:G1FK70.H7p@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.people, Joakim Olsson writes:
> > Hi there!
> > Excuse me if i am totally lost here...
> > Is it not so that a 6 letter password containing letters from A to Z and • 0
> > to 9, can have 36^6 different combinations and contains 48 bits in a • unique
> > order?
> > A binary value containing 0 or 1 in 8 postitions is 2^8, equals 256
>
> 36^6 is about equal to 2^31. Maybe it was typical 5-character pw's that
> resulted in 24-26 bits of true information...I don't remember for sure, it
> was many months ago. OK, yes, <calculator poking> 36^5 is about equal to
> 2^26. Also, IIRC, I think many 5-character pw's were rejected during the
> random statistical tests on grounds of being too short and simple. Most • of
> the random 6-character pw's went through OK. Anyway, 2^18 is open net • hockey
> and 2^24 is still not so great.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Todd
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