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A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords
Ars Technica gave three experts a 16,000-entry encrypted password file, and asked them to break them. The winner got 90% of them, the loser 62%—in a few hours. The list of “plains,” as many crackers refer to deciphered hashes, contains the usual list of commonly used passcodes that are found in virtually every breach…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Sep 5, 2013 | A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords by wulfgarpro | 112 | 73 |
