> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Dave Close > > Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > >To answer this kind of stuff, I like wolframalpha. > >Alphanumeric, mixed case, means 26*26*10 possibilities for each character. > > Huh? I count 62 possibilities for each character, far smaller.
Oops - sorry. I screwed that up. 26+26+10 = 62 possibilities for each character. log62(2^256) = 43 random alphanumeric characters needed for 256 bit password strength _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
