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Even if the attacker got them out of order, it would let them be able to brute force guess in a small number of attempts.
by plopz 9y ago
Even if the attacker got them out of order, it would let them be able to brute force guess in a small number of attempts.
- hinkley 9y agoFor example, there are about 41,000 possible passwords for a given set of 8 characters, out of around 96^8 possible 8 character passwords (in the ASCII character set).
- brailsafe 9y agoWhere does 41000 come from?
- eterm 9y agoIt's 8! (8 factorial) which is 40320. This is 127,286,426,869 (~128bn) times smaller than 92^8. Edit: Note that if you have a repeated character in your 8 charcter password then the number of permutations of the set of 8 (7 distinct) characters is further halved to 20,160.
- Klathmon 9y agoAnd just by doubling the amount of selectors you could always check for a repeated character! (AKA [value$=aa], [value$=bb], etc...)
- roywiggins 9y agoAnd if any of those are words or almost words, you'd guess that first and probably have it.