Isn't it cool.  We now have disk arrays with a MTBF longer than the
expected life of the human species.  AND password protection for just as
long. ;-)

Bruce.
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At 10:53 AM 10/22/98 -0400, Stigers, Greg [And] wrote:

>key  26 chars  96 chars      256 chars          26*36^(chars-1)
>len  (a-z)     (typable)     (all ASCII)        (MPE contruct)
>3    2 secs    1 min         27 min             3.37 secs
>4    1 min     2.35 hrs      4 days             2.02 min
>5    19 min    9 days        3 yrs              1.21 hrs
>6    8.6 hrs   2 yrs         891 yrs            43.67 hrs
>7    9 days    238 yrs       2,283 Cs           65.51 days
>8    241 days  228 Cs        584,546 Cs         6.46 yrs
>9    17 yrs    21,945 Cs     149,643,989 Cs     2.33 Cs
>10   447 yrs   2,106,744 Cs  38,308,861,211 Cs  83.73 Cs