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Statistical Analysis of PIN Numbers (2012)

2 pointsby JamilDabout 9 years ago

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drallisonabout 9 years ago
Interesting data, worth the read.<p>Of course, it is foolish to expect 4-digit PIN numbers to provide any significant level of security against a brute-force attack ordered by most common choices first. Numbers are probably the wrong tokens for PINS since they have a sequential ordering that is difficult to ignore when making &quot;random&quot; choices.