Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Now that's security


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It would be even more secure if they used the last seven digits of π, as written in hexadecimal notation.

Dave H said...

This is surprisingly easy to crack. It's "0000000".

You can append an arbitrary number of zeroes to the end of the fractional part of a real number without changing its value.

Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...

@Dave H: Actually, that would change the value of pi. Is 3.1415000000 = 3.14159?

Anonymous said...

Not that difficult. Just generate a 7 digit random number until one works.