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I'm guessing because a good dictionary would include common misspellings and stuff like this (e.g., "asdfasdf", "qwerty", etc.)?
by Splines 16y ago
I'm guessing because a good dictionary would include common misspellings and stuff like this (e.g., "asdfasdf", "qwerty", etc.)?
- Groxx 16y agoThey do. Most decent password-dictionaries I'm aware of are based off actual password dumps from hacked sites, so they're loaded with low-mental-entropy stuff like that. They're "dictionary" attacks because they work from a pre-selected set of values, not because they read from Merriam-Webster, cromulent though it may be.