SSH hacked?

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:14 +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 14 Jan 2009 at 12:03:20 +1000, Res wrote:
> 
> > love to know who does your math :)
> 
> There are about 70 alphabetic, numerical and other symbols which could
> be chosen. A 20 character password has 10^36 combinations. At 1 per
> second it would take 10^29 years to list them. We'll be generous and
> allow a bot not to have to consider passwords with 19 character or
> fewer, to know a username, make 1000 attempts per second and have a
> successful outcome after testing 1% of the possibilities. It has in the
> region of 10^24 years of work ahead.

To put the time in in perspective, the estimated age of the universe is
about 13 * 10^9 years.
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