News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on 1Password GPU brute-force with 3M hash/s. Parent comment

Re:1Password GPU brute-force with 3M hash/s by lelandbatey on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @08:26PM (#5561810)
However, I'd assume a password like:

thisisthepasswordthatiwilluseonhackernews

would still be relatively hard to crack?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:1Password GPU brute-force with 3M hash/s by glomph on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @10:12PM (#5562238)
Not if they run through a dictionary of common words and include the site name in that dictionary. (Common practice)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:1Password GPU brute-force with 3M hash/s by _ikke_ on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @03:30AM (#5563207)
The search space grows exponentially with each additional word being added. With enough words, it gets infeasible to bruteforce.
[ Parent | on HN ]