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Password lists are full of weak passwords. You don't brute-force the password, you use a password list instead.
by Jnr 2y ago
Password lists are full of weak passwords. You don't brute-force the password, you use a password list instead.
- notpushkin 2y agoPotato, potato. Does anybody really say “bruteforce” not meaning a dictionary attack?
- janalsncm 2y agoThe author of the article, apparently.
- Krutonium 2y agoYes, plenty. It's not great for passwords, (but sometimes it still is! Sometimes sites using MD5 still get popped) but there's plenty of other problem spaces where brute forcing still means brute forcing.
- notpushkin 2y agoSorry, forgot to clarify! Yeah, the context matters here: if you’re cracking something like a numeric PIN, or looking for something like a hash collision, you might want to iterate through all possible solutions, randomly or sequentially.