On 08/12/2014 01:47 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Even with the best one-way salted encryption how long does it take to crack a password if it is only 5 chars long?
That depends on how much computing resources are devoted to the task. The classic DES-cracker of the EFF back in 1998 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker took only 56 hours. That's about 1 hour per bit of the key. That used 29x64 ASIC chips. Today's technology - well apply Moores Law. Wet finger in the air estimate, at least 1000 times faster. And now we have dedicated chips for doing this in mass production. And microcode in CPUs. That machine cost the EFF $250,000 back then. The number of dedicated GPUs or custom ASIC you could get for that today, for one tenth of that cost. https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/HTML/19980716_eff_d... No wonder we believe the NSA is reading all our phone calls. Who needs back doors? Of course for $99 ... http://www.parallella.org/ 4096 cores on a single chip http://www.adapteva.com/ Well, almost ... Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva http://www.zdnet.com/build-your-own-supercomputer-first-99-parallella-boards... -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org