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Re: Spanish Dict.

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From: John Herndon
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 21:02
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Graham..

	If you were to read a little more carefully, you would see.. that
once the password was CHANGED to posting would then occur.  Posting of the
OLD password.  Still, I think this is kinda pointless.  But if you think
about it.. just write a program to fill in the spot of the dictionary to
generate passwds.  So when your passwd cracker looks for a word, dont let
it go to a dictionary, have it jump to a subroutine that will generate a
password.  If you concentrate all your computer's cpu time/resources to
this task you can do some hefty passwd cracking.  Even words that aren't
in the dictionary. 

	Most people stick to characters.. Upper/Lower.. and possibly some
numbers.  Anyways, some of you will get the idea.. For 52 possible
chracters in 6 slots (avg password length) runs to about 1.977060966 *
10^10 possibilities.  On a slow computer doing about 250 tries/sec will
come to roughly 915 days.  Now if you chunk all cpu on that task, or
multiple computers banging on different areas of your wordless then you
will (obviously) divide the task and have a much quicker final result. 
Etc. etc.. etc.. etc.

			Just Another Crazy Though > jherndo@eis.calstate.edu
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From: jherndo@eis.calstate.edu (John Herndon)
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 21:02:36 GMT
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