Re: cracking - Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-23 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Alvin Oga: - and hopefully, they don't have the passwd file from /etc/shadow to compare against Agreed. Once they're in, all bets are off. best to assume they are already in and sniffing .. 24x7 and work knowing they can

cracking - Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, s. keeling wrote: I disagree. A cracking program is going to attempt to match permutations of dictionary words. This will not add much more time to ... how fast can a cracking system go thru dictionary words that are mispelled with various digits and special char

Re: cracking - Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alvin Oga: - and hopefully, they don't have the passwd file from /etc/shadow to compare against Agreed. Once they're in, all bets are off. Why bother to crack if you can sniff? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)