On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 14:16 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > Oh, and the program to do this can be found very easily. It's called > 'John the Ripper' and has GPU support available: > http://openwall.info/wiki/john/GPU > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_ripper > > Again, the real bruteforce danger is when your /etc/shadow is > exfiltrated by a security vulnerability of the type that allows > arbitrary remote code execution or arbitrary file access. Once the > attacker has your /etc/shadow, there is absolutely nothing you can do to > keep said attacker from cracking your passwords at full speed. Well, > nothing except the password strength itself. Thanks for the future details. My passwords usually contain letters from 2 or 3 different languages as well with non-letters inserted every 2 or 3 characters. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. Je suis Charlie.