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Re: Password policy.

From Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Password policy.
Date 2018-11-14 05:40 +0100
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	Hi.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 04:47:39PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 November 2018 14:01:51 Reco wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 12:49:17PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 13 November 2018 11:23:13 peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch04.en.html#_
> > > >good _password specifies "6 to 8 characters".  Is that adequate
> > > > against currently available brute force?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,                                  ... Peter E.
> > >
> > > "John the ripper" can find a 6 char word in a couple seconds on a
> > > slow machine.
> >
> > Against sha512? Or against old Unix crypt? There's a difference, and
> > it's measured in orders of magnitude, not times.
> >
> > Reco
> 
> I don't recall as it been a decade or more since I saw that article

So it's either crypt or md5. Debian moved away from both long time ago.
John's too slow for today's hashes as it only utilizes CPU.
If you really need to bruteforce that password you use hashcat - GPU
based.

Reco

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Password policy. peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-13 18:10 +0100
  Re: Password policy. Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-13 18:30 +0100
  Re: Password policy. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-13 18:50 +0100
    Re: Password policy. Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-13 20:10 +0100
      Re: Password policy. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-13 22:50 +0100
        Re: Password policy. Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-14 05:40 +0100
    Re: Password policy. peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-13 21:00 +0100
      Re: Password policy. Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-11-13 21:10 +0100
      Re (2): Password policy. peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-13 22:20 +0100
        Re: Re (2): Password policy. Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-14 05:40 +0100
  Re: Password policy. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-13 19:20 +0100
  Re: Password policy. Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2018-11-13 19:40 +0100
    Re: Password policy. Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-13 20:10 +0100
      Re: Password policy. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-13 21:20 +0100
        Re: Password policy. peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-14 03:40 +0100
  Re: Password policy. peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-14 04:10 +0100
    Re: Password policy. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-14 10:50 +0100
      Re: Password policy. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-11-14 11:30 +0100
        Re: Password policy. Corey Manshack <corey@manshack.me> - 2018-11-14 11:40 +0100
          Re: Password policy. Corey Manshack <corey@manshack.me> - 2018-11-14 12:30 +0100
            Re: Password policy. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-11-14 12:30 +0100
              Re: Password policy. Corey Manshack <corey@manshack.me> - 2018-11-14 13:20 +0100
                Re: Password policy. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-11-14 15:30 +0100
                Re: Password policy. Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-11-14 16:50 +0100
          Re: Password policy. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-11-14 12:30 +0100
        Re: Password policy. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-14 12:20 +0100
          Re: Password policy. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-11-14 15:40 +0100
            Re: Password policy. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-14 17:00 +0100
              Re: Password policy. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-11-14 17:50 +0100
                Re: Password policy. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-14 21:30 +0100
              Re: Password policy. Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-11-15 01:10 +0100

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