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How fast could the NSA crack a BCrypt-hashed password?
by elchief 13y ago
How fast could the NSA crack a BCrypt-hashed password?
- rythie 13y agoIt depends on what cost has been used
- dchest 13y agoIt's in the article.
- uxp 13y agoNot quite. From the article: > A 2009 paper (PDF) by computer scientist Colin Percival estimated that it would cost a mere $4 to crack, in an average of one year, an 8-character bcrypt password composed only of letters. Yet the linked paper by cpercival specifically states that a 8 _letter_ password would only take $4 per year to crack, but a 8 _character_ password would jump to $130k. Also, these numbers, as quoted from the paper, are referenced from 2002 dollars, including dollar costs of hardware from 2002, but do not include hardware other than the CPU, such as power supplies.
- svantana 13y agoit depends on whether your password is "kittenz" (one minute) or "A39cBiwe&4j2fqVz1uQ" (years and years)
- hahainternet 13y agoNo. It depends on the number of rounds.