handouts/ho01.tex
changeset 459 514485146641
parent 457 38ef1ef6082d
child 462 33dcbafb27ce
--- a/handouts/ho01.tex	Thu Jul 14 13:07:23 2016 +0100
+++ b/handouts/ho01.tex	Tue Jul 19 12:08:49 2016 +0100
@@ -693,7 +693,19 @@
 \url{http://goo.gl/83Ho0N}
 \end{center}
 
-\noindent Clearly, passwords are a technology that comes to
+\noindent Or the passwords from eHarmony
+
+\begin{center}
+\url{https://goo.gl/W63Xhw}
+\end{center}
+
+\noindent The attack used dictionaries with up to 15 Billion
+entries.\footnote{Compare this with the full brute-force space
+of $62^8$} If eHarmony had properly salted their passwords,
+the attack would have taken 31 years.
+
+
+Clearly, passwords are a technology that comes to
 the end of its usefulness, because brute force attacks become
 more and more powerful and it is unlikely that humans get any
 better in remembering (securely) longer and longer passwords.