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Originally Posted by pip08456

Look at it this way, an 8 letter lower case password has 208,827,064,576 different combinations - a huge number but with the right tools won't take long to crack especially now that Amazon has made GPU cloud computing available. Add a capital letter into the mix and the time raises expotentially as it will continue to do with the addition of a number and then a special case - come back in a hunderd years or so for the answer.

This is from 3 years ago.

https://stormpath.com/blog/5-myths-password-security/
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/hacke...rds-video.html