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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 s

by 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.