Brute Forcing Passwords

Password Length	Allowed Characters	Number of Possible Password
4	Uppercase, lowercase, and digits	14,776,336
6	Uppercase, lowercase, and digits	56,800,235,584
8	Uppercase, lowercase, and digits	218,340,105,584,896
10	Uppercase, lowercase, and digits	839,299,365,868,340,224
12	Uppercase, lowercase, and digits	3,226,266,762,397,899,821,056
14	Uppercase, lowercase, and digits	12,401,769,434,657,526,912,139,261
16	Uppercase, lowercase, and digits	47,672,401,706,823,533,450,263,330,816

• 14,776,336 possible passwords is a large number but don't it fool you.
• Using a computer to brute force the password
  • trying a password takes .001 seconds due to system throttling
  • We can try 1000 passwords per second
  • Finding the password will only take 4 hours
  • math
    • 62 to 4th pwr=14,776,336 × 0.001 = 14,776 seconds
    • 1 hour = 3600 seconds
    • 14,776 seconds / 3600 seconds = 4.1 hours