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Technically obfuscation is perfect until it's found. And many times it's never found (the same is true for passwords in general, you could argue that's a form o
by ranger_danger 2y ago
Technically obfuscation is perfect until it's found. And many times it's never found (the same is true for passwords in general, you could argue that's a form of obfuscation). For example who would ever find a compressed file that masquerades as completely unrelated and harmless looking plain text that was made with a custom dictionary? I think it's more about how good the obfuscation is rather than it being used at all.
- austin-cheney 2y agoThis has been disproven many times. Way back in 2010 it was demonstrated that any 14 character password with special characters could be guessed within 10 seconds using a rainbow table. Likewise obfuscation only hides defects from people, not bots, which only serves to speed compromise and slow resolution.
- ranger_danger 2y agoA rainbow table is ineffective against one-way hashes that include large salts, which is most modern password algorithms. I also don't see how this is related to, or disproves, anything I said...