Question

Suppose your computer is able to test 50,000 passwords per second. If the password were 8 bytes long (a-z, A-Z, 0-9), what year will the password be cracked through brute force (Show your work)?

Assume

1) you were born in 1996,

2), the experiment began in 2016,

3) the password will happen to be found at the 2/3 of the way to the end of all possible passwords, and

4) you and your descendants will have their child at age 25 and live till 100 years old.

Who will be able to see the moment of the password being cracked? Will you be able to live long enough to see it?

If so, how old will you be? How about your son, your grandson, your great-grandson, your great-great-grandson? How old will they be?