[–] 2 points 1 month ago

I’ve thought of the point where password length becomes irrelevant as well. Unless there some maths I don’t know that plays a role here, longer passwords become useless when x^n > K. Where x is the character set available for the password, n is the smallest length that meets the criteria of the formula, and K is the hash functions key space. Effectively, this would be due to the fact that brute forcing would be just as likely to find a collision as it would the actual password used.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you for being the one to say this; it’s usually me. I typically also address the idea, espoused by far too many teachers, that ‘you can’t cite Wikipedia because it’s an unreliable source’. Where that statement is obviously wrong as Wikipedia nor any encyclopedia is a source, rather it’s a resource, but also, Wikipedia is the most accurate encyclopedia to date due to its ability to be updated on a whim. Which serves to offset the ‘half-life of facts’ that understandably effects the accuracy of written encyclopedias.

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