![]() ![]() #KEEPASSXC ENCRYPTED DATABASE PASSWORD#This exercise has been eye opening for me as to how secure a 20 character password is already. Please understand I’m NOT recommending that you use a 40-bit key as at least one website at which I entered a 35-40 character key told me my password was an overkill because of the gazillion number of centuries it would take to crack. However, with KeePassXC, it’s no big deal. You do need to keep track of two passwords. In English, Strategy #1 requires two sequential brute force attempts, each of which potentially needs about approximately 1 million, trillion, trillion, trillion tries. If you’re comfortable for working with exponents, Strategy #2 s safer than Strategy #1 by about : ⁃đ26**40 / 126**20 = 126**(40-20) = 126**20 = 1.0172106590035375e+42, ⁃ or in plain English, approximately 1 million, trillion, trillion, trillion times. So, I’ll skip that detail for slightly better clarity. ![]() The mathmetical symbol for exponent ** is generallyn shown as ^ in smartphones and computers Strictly speaking, in terms of average tries needed instead for maximum tries (more likely), we’d be talking of half the of the #tries for each strategy, but that detail is really meaningless when compared to the size of these number.
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