> yep, most of the discussion about passwords completely miss the point. a random word, like "dog" or "pingpong" is fine if the pqsswords are salted and hashed appropriately. how often have your accounts been hacked this way?
A word like "dog" or "pingpong" is favored in a rainbow-table type of attack. Nobody pre-hashes "109231oijoasdfnaisdfabatteryhorse123".
And yes many passwords have been hacked this way [0].
So it's hard to understand the point you are tried to make. Why don't you try again and expand on "modern brute force techniques" that could crack a password 50 characters long? More productive endeavor and benefits the board.
how does a rainbow table crack "dog" with the salt "109231oijoasdfnaisdfabatteryhorse123"?
rainbow tables are as old as time and indeed still work on passwords with poor salting. for more complex (but not complex enough) passwords there are more modern approaches, like probabilistic candidate generation
A word like "dog" or "pingpong" is favored in a rainbow-table type of attack. Nobody pre-hashes "109231oijoasdfnaisdfabatteryhorse123".
And yes many passwords have been hacked this way [0].
[0] - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-hack-understanding-w...
So it's hard to understand the point you are tried to make. Why don't you try again and expand on "modern brute force techniques" that could crack a password 50 characters long? More productive endeavor and benefits the board.