I just gave those numbers for relative comparison to those in the PKZip
manual, since it was easier to create one column at 10,000 attempts per
second than to recalc the other three at one attempt very six. By "pretty
tricky to pull of on a console", speaking for myself, I would have a
challenging time putting together such hardware as would be capable of
stuffing a console with 10,000 attempts per second, or replacing the CRT and
keyboard entirely to try this stunt. All I meant was that it seemed to show
that longer passwords with at least the possibility of numbers made brute
force attacks or random guesses less likely to work, and that I liked the
idea, while expecting that hackery would turn to other approaches. Wish
clean-running STORE jobs created this kind of traffic. That's an everyday,
real world issue.