A computer can guess more than 100,000,000,000 passwords per second. Still think yours is secure?
- Written by Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University
Paul Haskell-Dowland, Author providedPasswords have been used for thousands of years, as a means of identifying ourselves to others and in more recent times, to computers. It’s a simple concept – a shared piece of information, kept secret between individuals and used to “prove” identity.
Passwords in an IT context emerged...





