>On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Tom Vogt wrote:
>
>>> would put it at about 26^3200, which is on the order of 2^12000. Go
>>> ahead, I await your method of brute forcing that.
>>
>>yes, but would you TYPE 3200 characters every morning to log in?
>
>Besides, it is quite likely that such long passwords would actually be taken
>from known texts. It is relatively easy to track what texts a given
>adversary is likely to have read, obtain them in electronic form and run a
>brute force based on that. That's would usually bring us far below
>O(2^12000).
Of course, a *simple* substitution of one word (or even
spaces) would make this *much* harder.
"Friends, Romulans, fellow countrymen, lend me your beers..."
(I probably buthered the hell out of that, never having heard
or read the original, but I think it gets the point across)
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because ordinary man, seeking approval of his so-called personality,
prefers to follow the dictates of his own peculiar style rather than
submit to any objective criterion of taste.--Jan Tschichold
