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AncientPC

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Nimloth: Do you know approximately how long it would take to brute force a 5 letter password? It just exponentially increases as the password gets longer. Oh well, if you have the time to spend trying to use a brute force password for the next week . . . or two.
 

goog40

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A 5 letter password wouldn't take too long...if you were trying to get a pass for a file on your own computer. But since you have to do it online, it would take much longer. I remember a long time ago when I tried a program for trying to crack a zip password, it was about half a million tries per second(thats on a P233). If it was just letters and case sensitive, thats 52^5, so a bit over 380 million... if the pw was only 5 letters:)
 

AncientPC

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Yeah, cracking on your own computer doesn't take very long, but the problem is like you said, it's online. You have to send the passwords and wait for the responses to see if they're correct or not. The lag between you and the server is much different than the lag from your hard drive / ram to your cpu.