Not necessarily true if he remembers the first 8 characters, that would remove the need to guess those characters at all.No. Bruteforicing would take years, especially since you have more than eight characters.
But he didn't mention how many characters are actually in it.How many characters is the whole password?
Not necessarily true if he remembers the first 8 characters, that would remove the need to guess those characters at all.
Which is why I'm asking for a clarificationBut he didn't mention how many characters are actually in it.
I don't really remember... less than 16 for sure.How many characters is the whole password?
Not necessarily true if he remembers the first 8 characters, that would remove the need to guess those characters at all.
Yeah no, I have only used letters and numbers for sure.Well, lets assume the worst case scenario, with it being a 16 character long password. You don't have to worry about the first 8 digits, so we can cut it in half. That would leave us with 1.8446744e+19 (256 ^ 8) different possible combinations, and that's just assuming only ASCII is allowed. If the encryption algorithm allows UTF-8, you'd be here for the rest of your life, although, I doubt you would have used any of those characters even if it did allow it.
Well in that case, it would take about 3 years and 295 days.Yeah no, I have only used letters and numbers for sure.