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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]TwoD said:[/b] You would obviously keep track of which combinations have been testes to avoid that.[/quote] Well, that sounds like an even worse idea, since you would have to constantly check if you've tried that key already. Not to mention the memory requirements. [quote]Who said everyone uses good passphrases[/quote] Good passphrases is at least what I've been talking about all along. [quote]Not if you have the right resources. You'd have to be really desperate to do it with a single machine.[/quote] But still, even if you use a distributed attack, it would take _a lot_ of time to crack a good passphrase (say, a 20 character long [truly] random string, using upper/lowercase letters, numbers and "special characters", using a realistic distributed attack. You do the math ;)) [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2269]HZR[/url] on 04-02-2006 20:50)[/small] Loading...
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