One _little_ terminology detail: On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:56:08 +0100, RW wrote: > What's important is the > amount of work needed to evaluate a password in a bruteforce dictionary > attack.
I'd say that bruteforce != dictionary. It's bruteforce _or_ dictionary attack instead. A dictionary attack is more sophisticated because it uses words from a dictionary, whereas a _real_ bruteforce will stupidly run through _all_ combinations of the given charsets and length ranges. It will _eventually_ be successful, even if our planet doesn't exist anymore at that time. Finite time, far far away. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"