On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:32 AM, donothing successfully <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is it not 96^4 possibilities? A much smaller number: ~85 million. > A quicker and dirtier approach might suffice. > God, that's not the first time I've messed up basic algebra. I've got to do better about that. You're right of course - base is possibilities, exponent is length. The easy way of checking this is abc length of 2: aa, ab, ac, ba, bb, bc, ca, cb, cc = 9 or 3^2. > Or you could try to socially engineer yourself, a tired vimmer might have the > capslock on and type ':X' instead of ':x' and not notice the prompts, > so it might > be worth trying ':X', ':x' or similar. > Modern hardware and brute force would have two symbols done in less than a second. If this is what the password, just start by brute forcing it and if it doesn't find anything after a minute or so, go to a dictionary (or rainbow table if there's a common hashing algorithm). And I feel I'm heading into OT territory for this list here :) I would like to hear the outcome of the OP's file (or process) though? -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
