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   692 \begin{center}
   692 \begin{center}
   693 \url{http://goo.gl/83Ho0N}
   693 \url{http://goo.gl/83Ho0N}
   694 \end{center}
   694 \end{center}
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   696 \noindent Clearly, passwords are a technology that comes to
   696 \noindent Or the passwords from eHarmony
       
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   698 \begin{center}
       
   699 \url{https://goo.gl/W63Xhw}
       
   700 \end{center}
       
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   702 \noindent The attack used dictionaries with up to 15 Billion
       
   703 entries.\footnote{Compare this with the full brute-force space
       
   704 of $62^8$} If eHarmony had properly salted their passwords,
       
   705 the attack would have taken 31 years.
       
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   708 Clearly, passwords are a technology that comes to
   697 the end of its usefulness, because brute force attacks become
   709 the end of its usefulness, because brute force attacks become
   698 more and more powerful and it is unlikely that humans get any
   710 more and more powerful and it is unlikely that humans get any
   699 better in remembering (securely) longer and longer passwords.
   711 better in remembering (securely) longer and longer passwords.
   700 The big question is which technology can replace
   712 The big question is which technology can replace
   701 passwords\ldots 
   713 passwords\ldots