I don't think that's true. Point me to a rainbow table that has that large of a keyspace. I can't say I've looked exhaustively, but I've not been able to find one that even exhausts the entire ascii space, let alone Unicode.
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 3:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: password questions 2011/9/9 Crawford, Scott <crawfo...@evangel.edu>: > However, the point remains that incorporating an alt-char vastly > increases the brute-force space and therefore makes them harder to > crack no matter how you're attempting to crack it. Even that's not the case, if rainbow tables are an option. Crack any password in constant time. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
