Recent content by B20221021

It literally says 'offline assets'. Online assets (a) lock themselves after a number if failed attempts. Try it yourself. (b) online asset crack attempts are over the internet, 1000's of times slower than cracking a password on a file on your local machine.

Very good point about hashed passwords stolen from server password stores. However, it may be dependant on the hash function used. If the function uses a SHA-256 to hash the password, the sun may burn out before it is cracked. For MD5 hashing, 40 minutes would crack most passwords.

The article fails to make it clear it is cracking offline passwords. Like password protected zip files. Your online password is safe as long as the server locks you account after a few failed attempts.

Agree. However the article goes to great lengths to hide the fact that it is talking about offline cracking. Click bait anyone?

Quantum computing will not crack my password of 123@567$ since my account will lock after serveral attempts. However, zip files with passwords, or any other non-locking process, are fair game.

The article is talking about user passwords, so maybe up to 12 characters cracked with either a dictionary or brute force methods. Secure encrypted connections are 256 bit encrypted, so this method will crack the encryption in slightly less than 2.29*10^32 years.