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Most of those are covered by what I wrote. I said they’re ranges of 0-1 symbols.
by hyperpape 8y ago
Most of those are covered by what I wrote. I said they’re ranges of 0-1 symbols.
- mcphage 8y agoRight, but my point is that since the cracker doesn't know which you're going to use, they'll need to stick to broad schemas that will take a long time. It doesn't matter if you only use 1 symbol, if the cracker needs to try every combination of up to 5 symbols. And even a broad schema like you suggest—which would take a long time to complete—will have holes that would be easy to squeak through, which means even those broad schemas have minimal value. Ultimately, even a schema like "sym? word sym? word sym? word sym? word sym?" is useless. They'll have to use brute force, and that means the difficulty of cracking your password is back to being based on the length.