The Crypticide project continues – there have been shake-ups at my work and in my private life which have severely eaten into the free time I have to think and write deep thoughts in my evenings, but they should be back on track RSN.

In the interim, I’ve decided to make things hard for myself, and change the direction the project postings were going.

I personally believe that reusable password authentication systems are woefully inadequate for the modern day, and in fact I have been of that opinion since the mid 1990s.

In the previous postings I asserted – with maths to support my assertion – that there are about 6.7 trillion typeable passswords, and that storage of same in a dictionary would occupy about 49,000 Terabytes.

I also asserted that this was far too few.

Rather than getting stuck in theoreticals, I intend to drill directly into the Unix crypt() algorithm which will multiply the problem by a factor of 4096, and further prove this to still not be enough.

More later.