Quote from: spruce on July 09, 2011, 08:00:52 PM

Quote from: bcearl on July 09, 2011, 07:46:02 PM

Somebody had a similar password on MtGox and was cracked:

Quote from: TheAlchemist on June 29, 2011, 03:50:46 PM

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.

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?

Some passwords weren't hashed with a modern method. But the one above was.