On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 12:49:17PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 13 November 2018 11:23:13 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch04.en.html#_good > >_password specifies "6 to 8 characters". Is that adequate against > > currently available brute force? > > > > Thanks, ... Peter E. > > "John the ripper" can find a 6 char word in a couple seconds on a slow > machine.
Against sha512? Or against old Unix crypt? There's a difference, and it's measured in orders of magnitude, not times. Reco