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Board Wallet software
Re: Electrum vs Multibit
by
Herbert2020
on 10/08/2016, 12:37:32 UTC
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Yeah that sounds about right... 8 places, with 94 options per place is 94^8... which is around 6.095E+15 variations...

I guess the issue is that people are stupid and will made a password like Pass1234 and think it is secure. Most hackers are likely to just run a bruteforce on letters and numbers... 62^8 would only be around 27 years Wink

One question I do have, because I'm not sure how the password hashing functions used by the wallets (it was mentioned SHA256 and Scrypt) operate... but what is the risk of hash collision using the various functions? ie. From experience, I know of Excel spreadsheet brute forcing passwords will return a password that unlocks the sheet, but is completely different from the original password used. eg original password was Test1234 and the brute force showed aaaa1999. I assume this is due to checking the "hash" of the input password and the 2 inputs generating the same hash.

well of course security is all a matter of degrees. having an 8 character long password compared to having a 15 or having enough randomness and including symbols, ... these are all ways to increase this security.

and as for the second part of your question i am going to go with not possible but i am afraid my opinion on that matter is of no value since i have little information in that area.

maybe these can help: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4014407
https://www.google.com/search?q=sha256+hash+collision