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Exactly. I don't have to speak any of the languages on wikipedia to use wikipedia as dictionary for cracking. You can have every quote from every book, every pl
by PostOnce 5y ago
Exactly. I don't have to speak any of the languages on wikipedia to use wikipedia as dictionary for cracking. You can have every quote from every book, every place name, every wikipedia article, every song lyric, and a cheap GPU can buzz through it all ... fast.
Kind of breathtaking that we have that power now, and kind of terrifying.
- Aachen 5y agoThis is exactly what I did for a research project in school: download Wikipedia, extract all combinations of iirc 2-5 words, do a few transformations like adding a lowercase variant and space-less variant, and run that set against the LinkedIn sha1 password dump. Quite effective for cracking passphrases that weren't randomly chosen words but an existing phrase.