If you send it to me, I’ll gladly tell you that you shouldn’t bother your pretty little head about it.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist! :-) Gary On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Could anybody translate Owen’s message into ordinary language? Or shouldn’t > I bother my pretty little head about it. > > Meanwhile, this morning, I got an urgent message from an acquaintance asking > me to loan him 2500 dollars on account of his being robbed “at gunpoint” in > the Philippines. A call to his home revealed that he was safe and sound in > Denver. Here is the puzzle. The spoofer gave me nowhere to send my money. > Thus, I have 2500 dollars to send and nowhere to send it. The only way I had > of getting back to him/her was via the spoofed email address. No link. No > bank account number. No phone number in Manila. How does THAT work? > > Nick > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:13 AM > To: Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: [FRIAM] Forum hacked > > A forum I belong to has been hacked, including personal info as well as > passwords. > > How do they use this information? > > I presume they try the hash function on all combinations of possible > passwords. (Naturally optimized for faster convergence). They see a match, > i.e. a letter combination resulting in the given hash of the password. > > If they crack one password, does that make cracking the rest any easier? > > And does "salt" simply increase the difficulty, and indeed can it be deduced, > as above, by cracking a single password? > > .. or is it all quite different from this! > > -- Owen > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
