Are passwords obsolete ?

[Andre Kesteloot]

Thank you all for your suggestions and remarks
73
André


On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:

>
> Doug Gentges <doug.gentges at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 4. Protect your password manager with a truly strong, random password.
>  You
> > only need one, so it's not too bad if it is long.  My personal
> preference is
> > to use the diceware algorithm ([[www.diceware.com]]  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
>
>
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