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Re: Regarding passwords
by
spruce
on 09/07/2011, 20:00:52 UTC

Somebody had a similar password on MtGox and was cracked:

Man, I seriously underestimated the power of GPU password crackers!

I had an 11-character password which I thought was pretty good--b1Ackb0x3!1, and that was cracked.  I'm pretty sure I didn't succumb to any phishing attempts.

Good thing I use 20+ characters for passphrases. Smiley
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23705.msg302468#msg302468

You are assuming that b1Ackb0x3!1 was cracked by a brute force approach. My pathetic Mt Gox password  consisted of solely five lower case letters and two numbers, seven characters total, and it wasn't cracked. Has anyone given a good explanation of why certain Mt Gox passwords were cracked and others weren't?