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New comment by rockland in "The vi family"

rockland — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:59:51 +0000

To continue the musical instrument analogy, I already master the piano and I am happy with it solving my requirements. Learning the guitar will be a great undertaking, and provide me no new songs to play.

Hence, I will stick to my piano.

New comment by rockland in "CapRover: Build your own PaaS"

rockland — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 07:48:26 +0000

Absolutely, you are of course correct. The uppercase letters and digits - together with the special characters like "!._-,...".

I kept it to 26 letters to keep the math simpler (or rather - the numbers smaller, for myself, really).

Number of days to brute-force if 10k requests/sec (26 letters still...):

4-length password = 45 seconds

10-length password = 453 years

Please give me a heads up if my math is off.

New comment by rockland in "CapRover: Build your own PaaS"

rockland — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:18:59 +0000

For every character in the password, you have 26 possible letters to choose from in an English alphabet.

Brute forcing this, you would have to try every combination. Which means for a four-letter long password: 26x26x26x26 = 456 976 possible passwords.

For a 10 letter long password: 26^10 = 141167095653376 possible passwords.