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So I was curious and replicated the experiment. Here is a summary of the results. * Twitter word list: ~2,000 passwords guessed * Just the word "password":

by glesica 14y ago

So I was curious and replicated the experiment. Here is a summary of the results. * Twitter word list: ~2,000 passwords guessed * Just the word "password": 18 passwords guessed * Ubuntu words file: ~10,000 passwords guessed I couldn't find an easily-downloaded list of the most common English words, maybe that would work even better. Note that the words file has over 200,000 words in it, whereas the twitter list had only ~4,500. So there could be merit to this method. Of course a ton of those words are trivial ("A" and "a" are both there, for example), so who knows. Edit: formatting

glesica 14y ago
Update: I found a list of common words that was easy to get into the proper format. It purports to be the 978 most common words, though it seems to have been compiled in the '60s. Whatever, close enough for me. It resulted in 893 hits. So, here's the breakdown: * Twitter (4,674 words): 2,198 successes * Just "password" (1 word): 18 successes * Ubuntu words file (234,937 words): 11,969 successes * Common words (978 words): 893 successes * Default wordlist (?): 102,297 and still going... This is based on 163,636 from the same database the author used.