> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 11:40:28AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
>> Here's the problem with all this.
>>
>> 8 characters for a name. Yes, in a hypothetical sense you have
>> 2.183401056×10^14 possible passwords if you use 8 ascii alpha/numeric
>> characters with no punctuation characters, but the vast majority of that
>> space are random strings not suitable for nicknames or meaningful
>> identifiers. For instance, I can't see that any remaining meaningful
>> permutations of "john smith" could possibly be left. How many email
>> addresses do they assign a year? How many back-logged names did they
>> create at first?
>
> Let's call it 26^8 or so: 208 billion.
Actually, 62^8, [a-zA-Z0-9]{8}
>
> The real problem is the lack of human meaning and the fact that
> names are usually longer than 8 characters.
>
> How many do they assign a year? Roughly a freshman class worth,
> plus maybe a hundred more? So 1200ish.
>
> John Smith is out of luck. So is Elizabeth Jones. But still, they probably
> have better options than "[email protected]" -- the login I was
> assigned so many years go, can still remember, and have absolutely no
> use for.
>
> -dsr-
>
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