Actually using special characters in your passwords !@#, etc increases the
time it takes to crack exponentially.
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-----Original Message-----
From: paul smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT: Java Script Question
How many of the 99% had punctuation within the PW?
best, paul
At 02:27 PM 9/8/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Just as example , I used to work in an ISP with 60,000 user accounts. I ran
>a password cracker ,with a very average size dictionary , against my pwd
>file, 99% of the passwords were found in one hour.
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