• Sigerson (3/4/2013)On the other hand I don't want anybody else to know this. It's like the One Ring of Power, it's already making me think of all the malicious acts I could do with this power.

    Use longer passwords and it ceases to be an issue. Yes, he was able to find a 5-character password in 2 seconds using a brute force search with a powerful GPU, but the complexity of such a search increases massively with the number of characters--a guesstimate would suggest that if it takes 2 seconds to find a 5-character password, it will take approximately 23 days to find an 8-character password using the same mechanism! (This is assuming perhaps 100 possible characters used in the password, which would give the 8-character one a million times more possibilities than the 5-character one).

    If you had a 20-character password, well, it would probably take longer than the remaining life of the Universe to crack it!