You can guess 40,000 billion passwords a second for about 10 million bucks

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, March 31, 2008 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment

David Jevans, CEO of IronKey was on Security Now 135 and stunned me with this quote:

“You can guess 40,000 billion passwords a second for about 10 million bucks”.

Now that’s some serious speed (and some serious money), but nothing I don’t expect several governments to have to hand.

Keep those passwords strong and long…

 

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