(Arne Babenhauserheide)
2016-04-21: securepassword: add yearstillcrackable and fix documentation securepassword: add yearstillcrackable and fix documentation
diff --git a/examples/securepassword.w b/examples/securepassword.w --- a/examples/securepassword.w +++ b/examples/securepassword.w @@ -6,25 +6,53 @@ exec guile -L $(dirname $(dirname $(real ;; Create secure passwords, usable on US and German keyboards without problems ;; As of 2011, a single device can do 2,800,000,000 guesses per second. +;; Today this should be 10 billion guesses per second. ;; According to a recovery company which sells crackers at 1.5k$, as of ;; 2016 a zip-file can be attacked with 100,000 guesses per second. ;; A password with 8 letters and 2 delimiters (length 8, entropy 50) ;; would on average withstand the strong attack for 2.5 days, the weak -;; until 2032, assuming doubling of processing power every two years. +;; until 2032 (when it would be cracked in one year), assuming +;; doubling of processing power every two years. Cracking it in one +;; day would be possible in 2049. ;; A password with 12 letters and 3 delimiters (length 12, entropy 75) -;; should withstand the strong attack until 2049, assuming doubling of -;; processing power every two years, the weak until 2082. +;; should withstand the strong attack until 2069 (then it would be +;; cracked in one year), assuming doubling of processing power every +;; two years, the weak until 2099. + +;; For every factor of 1000 (i.e. 1024 computers), the time to get a +;; solution is reduced by 20 years. Using every existing cell phone, +;; the 12 letter key would be cracked by the method with 100,000 +;; guesses per second in 2039. Facebook could do that with Javascript. define-module : examples securepassword - . #:export : password + . #:export : password yearstillcrackable import only (srfi srfi-27) random-source-make-integers . make-random-source random-source-randomize! only (srfi srfi-1) second third iota srfi srfi-42 + ice-9 optargs + + +define* : yearstillcrackable entropy #:key (guesses/second 100000) + . "Estimate of the years it will take until the password is crackable" + let + : seconds/day : * 60 60 24 + days/year 365.25 + ` + in-one-day + , * 2 + / + log : / (expt 2 entropy) (* seconds/day guesses/second) + log 2 + in-one-year + , * 2 + / + log : / (expt 2 entropy) (* days/year seconds/day guesses/second) + log 2 ;; newbase60 without yz_: 55 letters, 5.78 bits of entropy per letter.