Password length paranoia

Ludwig Hügelschäfer mlisten at hammernoch.net
Tue Feb 7 20:14:29 CET 2006


Hi,

On 07.02.2006 20:05 Uhr, Oskar L. wrote:

> This is of course only true if the attacker knows it is exactly 15
> characters long. If not, then it should be calculated like this: 95^1 +
> 95^2 + 95^3 + ... + 95^15.

Right, this gives exactly 95^16 - 1. This is not a dramatic improvement
compared to 2^256.

Ludwig



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