diff -r aebcaa545f81 -r 514485146641 handouts/ho01.tex --- 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.