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jemfinch on Jan 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon.com Security Flaw Accepts Passwords That Ar...

Strong, 8-character passwords are 1 in 5132188731375616. Is that really so weak?

nbpoole on Jan 29, 2011 [–]

That depends on how fast you can check for validity.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003888 or http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1545576 for examples of how fast certain types of brute-force attacks have become.

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