AI cracks 51% of passwords in 1min

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[–]TitsAndWhiskey 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Completely based on password length. At 9 chars, you get 1 hour. 10 = 23 hours, 11 = 3 weeks, etc. Appears to be logarithmic which is not really something I would expect with AI.

The only training data it could have would be a data set of existing passwords, which would be expected to provide an advantage over brute force when a common password is used, but this tool gives the same result for ‘password’ as it does for ‘3pm!akR7’

The tool is bullshit.

[–]Musky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

16odVeU@Ov8gqT7TV

2O2Ze7n5CBSnG42SZ

Special characters made a difference.

[–]TitsAndWhiskey 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I didn’t test at longer lengths. Made no practical difference below 10-15 chars.

Guess you might argue it still makes no practical difference.

I think the key takeaway here is to just use longer passwords, regardless of technological advances.