On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 06:52:28PM -0500, TR Shaw wrote: [snip] > > So now lets look at the case where there is malware on your machine > which will try to brute force your computationally hard password and > is smart enough to use your graphics engine to increased computational > power. Folks at MIT and Carnegie Mellon have already numerically > proved that a 12 character password is not crackable using brute force > in any reasonable timeframe. In fact an 8 character one has strength > of years. I would contend that using that much power will make its > existence known to you and coupled with the fact that you restart your > computer every now and again and that you run an antivirus > periodically that will eventually find it even if you don't notice the > slow down. Partially for this reason, I have a CPU meter on my desktop. If I see the CPU usage climb oddly (and I have), I start checking what processes are eating my CPU. This is one reason I don't keep my Facebook page open all the time. It periodically sucks CPU. For some reason, Javascript seems to chew CPU harder than almost anything else I run. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
