Originally posted by: RebateMonger
That's why I suggest 20-character pass phrases for my clients. Breaking those should take quite a bit longer.....Originally posted by: nweaver
We had just under 500 PC's, (mix of P3 550's and P4 2.6 non HT's) and brute forced a password that was 10 digits, non dictionary, uppercase and lowercase, alphanumeric in 6 hours or so.
This was a special DC program, built for the FBI, I don't think there are many replacments, and most folks don't have 600 PC's to run it against.