On 02/15/2015 09:29 PM, Tim wrote:
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.
I think this topic has been discussed at length on other lists
and forums more thoroughly than we can manage here.
No need to continue beating up this topic too much.
I do not mean to say that you should not. Just that it
does not shed much light on this very dark and secret
world :) :)
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