From b99661478c39868a5e723b10239c369120a0555f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zipdox2 <121819828+Zipdox2@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 00:50:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add probability equation to README --- README.md | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 396fe2c..84e687a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -89,8 +89,16 @@ performance-related tips. Because of probablistic nature of brute force key generation, and varience of hardware it's going to run on, it's hard to make promisses - about how long it's going to take, especially when the most of users - want just a few keys.\ + about how long it's going to take, especially when most users want + just a few keys. + + The probabilty can be calculated with this equation:\ + $T={32^N \over H}$\ + where:\ + *T* is the average time to a match.\ + *N* is the length of the filter.\ + *H* is the number of calculations per second. + See [this issue][#27] for very valuable discussion about this.\ If your machine is powerful enough, 6 character prefix shouldn't take more than few tens of minutes, if using batch mode (read