Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 30/07/2011 09:38 AM, Warp wrote:
> > Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
> >> Perhaps the surprising thing is that (say) a 6-character password
> >> doesn't look all that secure, and yet an 12-character password appears
> >> to be utterly unbreakable. Password security does not scale linearly
> >> with password size. It scales exponentially.
> >
> >    Why does that surprise you?

> Because humans generally don't understand the exponential function.

  I thought you had an understanding of exponential functions.

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                                                          - Warp

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