4 ms·

Would be really interested to know how they cracked these passwords...

• creshal 10y ago
  Brute forced them?
  • manmal 10y ago
    I really doubt that they brute-forced alapdanceissomuchbetterwhenthestripperiscrying. I have no exact idea, but I guess i would take 1000s or millions of years to bruteforce 1,22680068e65 combinations (taking only lowercase letters into account), if you don't have a working quantum computer available. UPDATE: I did some rudimentary math and think that top notch server farms would take something like 1e35 to 1e42 years to bruteforce 26^47 combinations.
    • phpnode 10y ago
      It's not a random sequence of characters, there are only 12 words in there. The cracker is trying words, not just random bytes and so the search space is much smaller
      • creshal 10y ago
        It's not trying random words, it's not even trying random syntactically valid English sentences, it's trying out song titles. Which is a laughably tiny password space.
      • manmal 10y ago
        Yes, it's not brute-forcing then. That's what I was getting at.
    • aianus 10y ago
      It's probably a phrase from a book or movie. There are much fewer published 12-grams than 26^47.
      • ProfDreamer 10y ago
        It's actually a song title.
        • maxerickson 10y ago
          Which is really easy information to track down. https://www.google.com/search?q=alapdanceissomuchbetterwhenthestripperiscrying https://www.google.com/search?q=alapdanceissomuchbetterwhent...
    • deerleader 10y ago
      '97 quattuordecillion years' according to howsecureismypassword.net/, if the password wasn't thebloodhoundgang song title
• spuz 10y ago
  Computerphile did a great video on how to crack passwords here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U-RbOKanYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U-RbOKanYs