Hi. On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 08:14:59PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 27 Aug 2017 at 21:12:12 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > I do not have to run faster than the bear, just faster than anyone else. > > (Analogies never work. Remind me not to use them again). > > > According to the article about the successful cracking, it is not so much > > about how fast you are. The bear will not stop when it is done with eating > > those behind you. > > Note that the article details the point at which the investigators gave > up on going after what they saw as random passwords. They would never > have got to > > my!only"reason£for$living%is^ebay > > no matter how low or high its entropy is.
Sadly it only means that these investigators were to lazy to implement Markov chains to generate a suitable dictionary. See this for the example: https://hashcat.net/events/p14-trondheim/prince-attack.pdf > We are mesmorised by the skills of offline crackers. They dazzle us and > blind us to realities. Where is someone saying that > > eq8GeKBhVXOTjF0dAyd0 > > is a splendid password? It wouldn't have a chance of being forced via an > online attack. Since it appeared in a public maillist - it is a bad password by definition. Reco