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Re: logout and auto-login

On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 05:15 , Finlay Dobbie wrote:

On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 03:42 pm, Andreas Monitzer wrote:

Guess how long it would take to break a regular password on a G5/2GHz when you got that hash.

An 8 letter alphanumeric password? Quite a while. Also, G5/2GHz machines don't exist (yet).

They exist (maybe only a single one), they just don't get sold.

And a 4 letter alphanumeric password takes one week worst case (zzzz) on my G3/300. Of course, the algorithm is exponential.

On a quantum computer those hashes are just as secure as the plaintext password.

But, you see, quantum computers don't exist (yet).

It's only a matter of time.

andy

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