It would take a computer ____ to crack a password with a length of three characters if the computer tries one million values per second.
A) .000013 seconds
B) .000338 seconds
C) .008788 seconds
D) 58 hours

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A password with a length of three characters has 26^3 (17,576) possible combinations if using only lowercase letters. At one million attempts per second, it would take 17,576 / 1,000,000 = 0.017576 seconds, which is closest to option C.

It Would Take a Computer ____ to Crack a Password