Re:New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% ...
by TheCleric on Saturday August 05, 2023 @07:01PM
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On average 2-3 errors. However the real thing we want to look at is what is my chance of guessing right across ALL characters. For 1 it's 95%, for 2 it's 90.2%, and it gets worse from there. The formula for accuracy would be .95^c where c is the number of characters in the password. So the chance of getting EVERY key correct in a 40 character password is < 13% and < 5% for 60 characters.
Re:New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% ...
by llbeansandrice on Saturday August 05, 2023 @07:52PM
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Right. The comment above is saying even if you are incorrect in 2-5 keystrokes it’s not hard to guess the correct keystrokes if you’re using a sentence style password.
You don’t need to guess every character.
Even if you flip a few letters from something like the above a human attacker will easily be able to fix it manually.
"horswstaplevatterucorrect" for example is still intelligible.