alt Hacker NewsIt narrows down the brute force domain by several orders of magnitude
Replies
emil-lp • yesterday at 7:41 AM
That's obviously false. It narrows it down less than a factor the length of the password, so unless your password is several orders of magnitude, it lowers narrows by a factor of ~8.
➕ show 1 reply
No, it doesn't. The set of all passwords of exactly length N is about 1% smaller than the set of all passwords up to and including length N.