Hacker News Reader

> 500M is ½ a billion, home rigs can run 100B guesses a second – so that complete list just takes 5ms to try.

5ms?

It would take more than that to just read the 500M passwords into memory, no?

Well yeah. But you, presumably, only have to do that once. After that you get 5ms per account, which seems to be the important takeaway.

But even then, 5ms seems extraordinarily fast on a home machine.

A couple of years ago I tried to bruteforce my WPA wifi handshakes and also played a bit with Hydra and I don't think I got even close to such speed.