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What about passwords 8 or more characters long?


You can easily calculate that using the charset and the time it took to crack a 6 character password. 6 character passwords with 95 different characters per digit take 49 minutes (Utilizing one machine and using CUDA-Multiforcer). 7 digits would mean 49*95=4655 (77 hours). But remember: The common password does not use special chars, so the actual number can be much lower.




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