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‘fhxGH5h’  Ain’t Close To Being A Safe Password Anymore   Cheap GPUs are rendering strong passwords useless

“ The results are startling. Working against NTLM login passwords, a password of “fjR8n” can be broken on the CPU in 24 seconds, at a rate of 9.8 million password guesses per second. On the GPU, it takes less than a second at a rate of 3.3 billion passwords per second.     Increase the password to 6 characters (pYDbL6), and the CPU takes 1 hour 30 minutes versus only four seconds on the GPU. Go further to 7 characters (fh0GH5h), and the CPU would grind along for 4 days, versus a frankly worrying 17 minutes 30 seconds for the GPU. It gets worse. ” All of which generates comments like — “   It is 57 years to crack all 10-char printable ASCII passwords with 4×5970 (95**10/33.1e9/3600/24/365.25 = 57.3 years). Actually a real attack would take less than 9 years, because one must take into account GPU performance doubling every 1.5 years. ” I'm filing this in the "If someone wants to break into your house badly enough, they will"  folder. But, sign me: Trllknffr&)nce2}} via DVORAK