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Subject: Re: SECURITY: my name is on a message which I didn't post!

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 12:39:05 02/03/04

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On February 03, 2004 at 15:29:19, Mark Young wrote:

>A six digit alpha numeric code will have about 2.2 trillion combo's.

>A six digit
>alpha code will only have 309 million.

For case insensitive passwords, you are correct. Consider uppercase and
lowercase (52 letters instead of 26). Most passwords are case sensitive (or
should be).

For a site that really wants people to have good passwords...

  26 uppercase English letters
  26 lowercase English letters
  10 digits
+ 32 punctuation/misc. characters (quick count on this keyboard)
----
  94 characters

94^6 = 689,869,781,056

So I guess my math was off. That's only 689 billion. For more combinations you
could even add in non-visible characters, like control-characters.



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