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		miles on Sept 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kaspersky researcher cracks Flame malware password you're looking at about two and a half hours to run through the entire keyspace That's a little faster than howsecureismypassword.net's estimate (154 octillion years on a desktop PC to crack "correct horse battery staple" (without quotes)).

koopajah on Sept 20, 2012 [–]

Yes but don't forget the other part of his sentence : That's assuming you know the dictionary, of course.

huggah on Sept 20, 2012 | [–]

It's pretty likely you do. Just take the N most common English words, and retry with a higher N if that doesn't work. That will crack "correct horse battery staple" quickly.

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