Passwords

Tips for selecting password length!

Here is an estimate of the time required for an exhaustive password search attack, when the
password is a random sequence of lowercase Latin letters.
We suppose that one user can check 10 passwords per second and an organization with a
budget of about $1 billion can check 10 billion passwords per second. We also suppose that
the processor in use doubles its performance every two years; so, each additional Latin letter
of a long password adds about 9 years to an exhaustive key search attack.

The result is this estimate of the time to succeed in an attack:

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