Re:Toddler Password – Get a secure password generated by a t...
by tialaramex on Sunday November 03, 2019 @05:45AM
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I'm glad my eyeballing the difficulty came off here.
It was tempting to pick say 128-bits of randomness and SHA-512/256 where I'd stake actual money that it just cannot be done - but that's like twice as much die-rolling and typing. On the other hand if I do 32-bits (fewer rolls) and MD5 there's probably some loser out there who has already precomputed all of those for whatever reason and then somebody finds the answer with a Bing search and doesn't end up learning anything.
It was tempting to pick say 128-bits of randomness and SHA-512/256 where I'd stake actual money that it just cannot be done - but that's like twice as much die-rolling and typing. On the other hand if I do 32-bits (fewer rolls) and MD5 there's probably some loser out there who has already precomputed all of those for whatever reason and then somebody finds the answer with a Bing search and doesn't end up learning anything.