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If we know the "algorithm" for your password choice (all lowercase, english words, space delimited, at least two words) that greatly reduces the time needed to
by naner 14y ago
If we know the "algorithm" for your password choice (all lowercase, english words, space delimited, at least two words) that greatly reduces the time needed to guess the password. I wonder how much time that would take to crack on modern hardware...
- elithrar 14y ago> I wonder how much time that would take to crack on modern hardware... A very long time. You're still looking at a total of 3-5 words you need to guess (9-25 characters based on 3-5 letters per word), in the right combination, and assuming all words are English or popular colloquialisms... ("greatly reducing" is still not going to make brute forcing a realistic choice).
- naner 14y ago9-25 characters based on 3-5 letters per word It would still take a very long time but remember we're not iterating by character anymore. Each word is a 'character' and our alphabet is the english dictionary. So for the example above, we have to guess 5 slots in the passphrase and each slot has [number of words in english dict] possibilities. And also we'd probably start guessing assuming 2 word passphrases and have to exhaust all of 2, 3 and 4 before we start guessing 5 word combinations. So how rusty is your combinatorics? :)
- DanBC 14y agoThe GP mentioned diceware. You "only" have a dictionary of around 7000 words. A 5 word phrase is strong. A 6 word phrase is very strong.