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A phrase like that is very easy to crack actually. People have been cracking brain wallets in the Bitcoin world (think storing all your money behind a passphras
by nwh 13y ago
A phrase like that is very easy to crack actually. People have been cracking brain wallets in the Bitcoin world (think storing all your money behind a passphrase that anybody can access, madness!) with greater complexity than that. From the person in questions posts, they're trawling wikipedia, quote databases, movie scripts, anything you can imagine to find phrases that people might use for passwords. It seems to work too, judging by the number of times I've encountered this person saying "hey, that's me, I stole those!".
The fact that there's google results for that phrase means it's a useless passphrase.
- dmix 13y agoIndeed, sure it's long(ish) but it's trivialized by the commonality of the words it contains.
- diminoten 13y agoIt's simply not, due to the fact that you don't know it's a passphrase. You know nothing about the password, you will never get to trying it.
- nwh 13y agoYou underestimate people. More often than not people will use a quote like the example in the parents post did. In a world of custom FPGA devices to crack passwords, it wouldn't take long.
- diminoten 13y agoOkay, than show me. Show me the algorithm that'd crack the password I just came up with.
- nwh 13y agoA forum scraper bot comes across this page: http://www.banjohangout.org/archive/251990/14 http://www.banjohangout.org/archive/251990/14 "You always find something in the very last place you look." Bamn.
- gnur 13y agohttp://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-youtube-are-fueling-the-next-frontier-of-password-cracking/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-yo...
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