Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2015, Heinz Diehl sent: > Please search the net on "dictionary attack" in combination with words > like "feasibility", "speed" and the like. You will be blown away by > reading what can be done. Of course that kind of implies that you have something that will let you continuously try different passwords upon it, instead of denying you after a few failures. Which is an incredibly foolish way to run security. It all depends on what they're trying to crack. Have their stolen your hard drive, and are free to do what they like using their own computers on your data? They can do that until they manage it, or your drive wears out from use. Or are they trying to hack into some service of yours over the internet, where they only have you remote facing interface to deal with? If they only get three goes an hour, before locking them out for too many failures, there never going to crack it if you had an even mildly good password. This isn't like the movies, or picking your bicycle combination lock, where you can crack one digit at a time. There is nothing to say that they've got any part of it right, so that they can then concentrate on cracking the rest. They've got to guess the entire password in one go. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. ZNQR LBH YBBX -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
