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Message-ID: <26ECA06E19BA8E4983AF05A2FF2E63B404B958@chibrwexch1.brw.corvis.com> From: Will.Banta at broadwing.com (Banta, Will) Subject: Senior M$ member says stop using passwordscompletely! >> Wow! Three-year-olds are supposed to have a vocab of 500+ words.... >So, how long would it take a 3 year old to brute-force through that key space? ;) Around 10 minutes assuming: 1) Words are spoken at a rate of appx. 1 per second 2) A suitable speech-to-text converter is used (i.e. parental help) 3) The sets representing the child's lexicon ( A ) and that of the average computer user ( B ) completely overlap i.e. A = B. Now this is giving the average computer user a LOT of credit ;) -wrb ;) ;) --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.778 / Virus Database: 525 - Release Date: 10/15/2004
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