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> Are you sure thats how evenly distributed hash algorithms work? change one letter of your string, or just make it longer or shorter - none of your green field
by mlyle 5y ago
> Are you sure thats how evenly distributed hash algorithms work? change one letter of your string, or just make it longer or shorter - none of your green fields will stay.
True. But still, I know the vast majority of words in my dictionary don't match those two green fields after hashing, and can be eliminated from further consideration as the password.
- lazide 5y agoThe password is not a dictionary word, it’s randomly generated though?
- mlyle 5y agoYes, it's a randomly generated string with ~90 bits of entropy. After one guess, I know many fewer of those values could work. Unfortunately, the best known way to test this is to enumerate all of them. 14 character random strings are out of reach; 11 character strings you can enumerate & test them all with a lot of computing.