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Originally Posted by Chainsaw13

I wonder how long a brute force crack would take?

Mark's answer is very thorough but proper names and whole words making up the password often shortens the time the algorithm requires quite a bit. As stated, the 24,000/second might be way off too. Most average PCs now have 2-4 cores and entry level servers have 2 sockets with 8-10 cores (16-20 CPUs). All of this significantly shortens the time required.

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