Guesses per Second & Time to Crack: Online vs Offline
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In this lesson
You compute the average number of guesses for four random passwords and turn them into years under four illustrative attack speeds with one mixed-reference formula, then count the cases that fall within a year.
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Lessons in this course
- Character Sets & Search Space: N^L Locked
- Entropy in Bits: L × log2(N) and a Rating Table Locked
- Passphrases: Diceware-Style Word Lists & Bits per Word Locked
- Guesses per Second & Time to Crack: Online vs Offline Locked
- Length vs Complexity: An Entropy Grid & Line Chart Locked
- Policy Design: Length, Blocklists & MFA Compared Locked
- Password Reuse: 1 − (1 − p)^N Across Sites Locked
- Lockouts & MFA: Capping Online Guesses Locked