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Example Password Cracking Speeds

 Authentication, Best Practices, Crypto, Identity Theft, Pen Testing  No Responses »
Jan 142011
 

A colleague recently shared a link from Lockdown (an unfortunately no-longer updated home computer security site) describing comparative times required to crack various passwords, using different types of platforms / processing speed.

Unfortunately there’s no information about hash algorithms, or salt mechanisms.

Original link here.
 Posted by john at 9:34 am
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