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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:58 pm    Post subject: Computer security and computer-supplied passwords Reply with quote

An early attempt to force users to use less predictable passwords involved computer-supplied passwords. The passwords were eight characters long and were taken from the character set consisting of lowercase letters and digits. They were generated by a pseudorandom number generator with 2^15 possible starting values. Using the technology of the time, the time required to search through all character strings of length 8 from a 36-character alphabet was 112 years. Unfortunately, this is not a true reflection of the actual security of the system. Why not?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We're not really here to answer homework or assignment questions...
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, I'll bite. The problem with computer-generated passwords is that they are completely unmemorable and so users write them down.
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