Allowing digits and special characters (as well as case-sensitive letters) creates an enormous number of passwords. However, computers can check passwords very quickly. Assume a computer can check approximately 170 million passwords per second. (Note that this is an approximate value, so it is a mistake to give answers with several decimal places that are not significant). a) How long (in minutes) would it take a computer to check every possible 5 character
Allowing digits and special characters (as well as case-sensitive letters) creates an enormous number of passwords. However, computers can check passwords very quickly. Assume a computer can check approximately 170 million passwords per second. (Note that this is an approximate value, so it is a mistake to give answers with several decimal places that are not significant). a) How long (in minutes) would it take a computer to check every possible 5 character
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Allowing digits and special characters (as well as case-sensitive letters) creates an enormous number of passwords. However, computers can check passwords very quickly. Assume a computer can check approximately 170 million passwords per second. (Note that this is an approximate value, so it is a mistake to give answers with several decimal places that are not significant).
- a) How long (in minutes) would it take a computer to check every possible 5 character password?
- b) How long (in years) would it take a computer to check every possible 9 character password?
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