PASSWORD GUESSING
John F. Haugh II
jfh at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US
Mon Aug 21 14:03:42 AEST 1989
In article <36830 at bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd at buit15.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
>In article <24888 at prls.UUCP> gordon at prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) writes:
>| The advice I see most often, and use myself is to simply pick
>| two unrelated words that are seperated by a symbol, with the entire
>| password being seven or eight charectors in length. Care to figure
>| what the odds are of a hacker breaking it ?
>
>Sure. Very good if the hacker has (exclusive) access to a good
>parallel machine, or access to several PC's and a good crypt()
>implementation.
I'd say its a virtual certainty any good programmer could break that
system in a very small amount of time.
A few questions crop up - how many three or four letter words are
there, versus possible three or four letter combinations of letters.
Next, how many special symbols are there.
The answer should be a small enough number for my PC to get it over
one or two nights of crunching.
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