Are passwords obsolete ?

[Rob Seastrom]

Doug Gentges <doug.gentges at gmail.com> writes:

> 4. Protect your password manager with a truly strong, random password. Â You
> only need one, so it's not too bad if it is long. Â My personal preference is
> to use the diceware algorithm ([[www.diceware.com]] Â You'll need a 6 sided
> dice) to generate my master password. A 7-word diceware pass phrase is pretty
> much immune to brute force, (at 10^13 guesses/second, it would take 54 billion
> years)

5.45 million years, but what's a few orders of magnitude between friends?  :)

Still fairly immune to brute force.

Dictionary is 7776 words.  Work shown below in dc(1)

merlot:~ rs$ dc
7776 7 ^ p
1719070799748422591028658176
10 13 ^ p
10000000000000
/ p
171907079974842
86400 365 * / p
5451137

-r