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I don’t understand why the author thought it would take years to find this password, as opposed to something closer to the four days it actually took.
by 1123581321 7y ago
I don’t understand why the author thought it would take years to find this password, as opposed to something closer to the four days it actually took.
- sp332 7y agoThey said an exhaustive 7-bit search would take that long. Edit: That would be 128^8 =~ 72 quadrillion DES hashes.
- aidenn0 7y agoWhich works out to 2.2 years at the rate that the actual password was cracked (1GH/s).
- Aissen 7y agoThat's the probabilistic aspect of password cracking :-). In addition, I'm not sure if it's 2 years with 2014 GPUs (when he did the initial cracking), or today's GPUs.