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Is this possible to brute force? - idop - 05-16-2021
Hi guys,
I'm trying to brute a password, known to be between 12-25 characters, here is the list of possible chars:
Code:
ertyudfghjcvbnm34567I have the 5000-iteration sha256 hash of the password.
Is this something that can be brute forced? or I'm wasting my time?
I am going to rent GPUs to do it (RTX 3090).
It will be really helpful if some one can give a mere estimate on how much it will take with this GPU.
RE: Is this possible to brute force? - Chick3nman - 05-16-2021
That keyspace is far too large for you to be able to bruteforce, even with the limited character set and at the lowest length of 12.
Edit: Some math for proofing
20 characters, 12 length, so 20^12 as total number of candidates, divided by a speed of roughly 2MH/s on a 3090 will give you approx 23703 days on 1x 3090. Or, 1 day on approx 23703x 3090. Each length longer than 12 increases this keyspace exponentially.
RE: Is this possible to brute force? - idop - 05-16-2021
(05-16-2021, 08:13 PM)Chick3nman Wrote: That keyspace is far too large for you to be able to bruteforce, even with the limited character set and at the lowest length of 12.
Edit: Some math for proofing
20 characters, 12 length, so 20^12 as total number of candidates, divided by a speed of roughly 2MH/s on a 3090 will give you approx 23703 days on 1x 3090. Or, 1 day on approx 23703x 3090. Each length longer than 12 increases this keyspace exponentially.
Understood, Thank you very much for the estimate too, very helpful.