Apple addressing security concerns.

Weelok · 02-17-2016, 04:06 PM

I forgot to put the links on time to crack. This will be interesting as the first link dated 2012 will discuss the brute force time to crack:

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1279619

Now let's see how a modern approach does it and note the article is in the same year:

http://www.maximumpc.com/researchers...-world-record/

But even cracking the encryption in 148 days or less depending on the parallel processors, it's quite a bit easier to crack the password especially if they are just 6 characters in length.

02-17-2016, 04:06 PM	#14
Weelok I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Jul 2011 First Name: Dave Location: Reno, NV Posts: 4,146 Trading: (21)	Re: Apple addressing security concerns. I forgot to put the links on time to crack. This will be interesting as the first link dated 2012 will discuss the brute force time to crack: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1279619 Now let's see how a modern approach does it and note the article is in the same year: http://www.maximumpc.com/researchers...-world-record/ But even cracking the encryption in 148 days or less depending on the parallel processors, it's quite a bit easier to crack the password especially if they are just 6 characters in length. __________________ Drink, pray, smoke, and work out.