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August 18, 2005 21:02 +0000  |  Employment Geek Stuff 2

95 quintillion
636 quadrillion
954 trillion
925 billion
771 million
17 thousand
120  

that's how many times our shiny dual xeon machine will have to attempt a password crack for an ssl certificate no one can remember the password for. by jacky's estimates, that's about a year's worth of work for the poor machine, but i have hope.

Comments

Jay Proulx
18 Aug 2005, 11:22 p.m.  | 

But you're just going to go buy a new one, right? :)

daniel
18 Aug 2005, 11:31 p.m.  | 

apparently, verisign only charges $100 for a resubmission of the same cert, so yes -- assuming my bruteforce crack doesn't get it first ;-)

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