• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Why is 1,000 years yellow in that graph?

    If a password can’t be broke in 1,000 years it is utterly unbreakable in any effective sense of the term. No one’s going to run the program for a thousand years because even if they did it wouldn’t be relevant at the end of the process.

    Hell even 51 years is pushing it.

    • The_Vampire@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Well, the rate passwords can be tested at now may not always be the rate passwords can be tested at later. Computers were, at one point, growing exponentially faster in terms of processing power. There are still several emerging technologies out there that could cause significant speed-ups.

      It’s certainly better to future-proof your passwords.