[conspire] Password permutations

[Texx]

Uh, finally caught up on thread, my questions got answered to my
satisfaction based on the later part of the thread.
I didnt get stats, but no longer care.


On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:21 PM Texx <texxgadget at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had been wondering the same thing but hadnt gotten around to asking yet.
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> An interesting question would be how many passwords are broken by
> iteration, and how many from password breaches?
> Even a dictionary attack would take a while if the account times out after
> every 5 tries.
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> I know there are some stats out there on the number of breaches.
> I dont know if there are stats on iterative attacks.
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> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:15 PM paulz at ieee.org <paulz at ieee.org> wrote:
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>> Now a different question.
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>> Who can actually try a large number of logins?    In my experience just
>> trying to get into my own account, it takes a second to get a response that
>> I messed up.  That limits my attempts to not very many in an hour.  Also,
>> If I mess up more than 4 or 6 times in a row, I get locked out and have to
>> phone the bank for assistance.
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>> Me thinks there is a different sort of security hole that would allow an
>> unlimited number of tries in a short time.
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> R "Texx" Woodworth
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