Chapter 45-2: Distorted Truths

[Red Shirt]

That leaves us with 13 letters/numbers... Unless she's using shift to capitalise some of them... It doesn't sound like that to me either, so...
I'd love it to be "zombiepodcast" just to get some cracks in the fourth wall-ish...

Let's see, just for fun... Let me get Excel out and turn off notation so I can understand what I'm seeing.

Assume upper case, lower case, numbers and characters equals 94 possible characters per password position of a thirteen character password which equals:

• 94^13 (94 to the thirteenth power) OR
• 4.47365 * 10^25 OR
• 44,736,509,592,539,800,000,000,000

Possible combinations.


Using brute force "random" attempts to guess the password and assuming one attempt per second, it would take:

• 1.4 * 10^18 OR
• 1.4 Quintillion OR
• 1,418,585,413,259,130,000 years

to break into those files... Whoa.
I think the universe will die from heat death before then.

(Even if you were to attempt one Billion attempts per second with a super computer, it would still take over 1.4 Billion years.)

Good catch! Then again, it could be just a copy of the files.

I sure hope so.