Re: logout and auto-login
Re: logout and auto-login
- Subject: Re: logout and auto-login
- From: Andreas Monitzer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:36:41 +0100
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