> It mentions both dictionaries and common words actually. You are right. The author did mention using combination of common words. However, I am very, very suspect of his numbers.
In his example of the word "orange", he says it takes 3 minutes using common words to crack. Yet, in his example of "alpine fun" he says it would take two months and "this is fun" would take over 2,500 years. This is about right, mathematically, but I suggest in practice, this is not the case. We use a dictionary, either of all words or common words so that we don't have to go through all theoretical possibilities. Therefore, trying to run an attack with all possible combinations of all entries in the dictionary is a non-optimal approach. I suggest using a "common phrase" dictionary instead. I bet that would be quite efficient and cracking "this is fun" would only take days, if not hours. And for those who know me well, yes, I think I know just how to do it. :-) -- Alberto Treviño BYU Testing Center Brigham Young University [email protected] -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
