Yeah, I tried cracking my own pass_phrase_ once… it was doing well until it got to (I think) digit #9 and showed it would take another year…
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Digit being the key here- alphanumeric with mixed case and symbols takes a dozen cards over 160 years.
Cyber@feddit.uk 1 week ago
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
To be fair, that assumes complete exhaustion of the password space. If you assume that a given password is totally random, then it’d take half that time, 80 years, on average.
Thing is, most people don’t choose totally random passwords, and there are utilities that will try to generate statistically-more-common passwords sooner in that sequence.
I’m probably very out-of-date here, but as an example, one elderly utility, John the Ripper*, comes with “mangling rules” to append a “1” at the end of a given sequence fairly early, because that’s how a lot of people make their password pass a digits requirement.
I’d guess that today, someone probably has software that has rules to order its attempts that are trained off leaked password databases to be statistically optimal to defeat them, rather than merely manually crafted with human guesswork.
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Totally fair points! Password managers FTW, all my passwords are 25 character complete random.
tisktisk@piefed.social 1 week ago
I was told there is no such thing as complete random
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
www.idquantique.com/…/quantis-qrng-pcie/
catloaf@lemm.ee 6 days ago
That depends on whether you believe in determinism.
Current CSPRNGs are good enough for our purposes.
JordanZ@lemmy.world 6 days ago
This comes to mind from your ripper comment.