IMHO: sniffing unsecured protocols (telnet, pop3, http) for passwords and other things is more efficient than running a "john the ripper"
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of the CyberLizard Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [plug] on Jack the Ripper (was: [misc] dont mess with the sys ad) Rowel Atienza (27 Nov 2002 10:19:38 +1100) > One way of probably improving it is to make an > AI-based dictionary generating algo (eg it cant > decrypt Tagalog passwd) plus make use of mutilthread > techniques to burn as many CPUs as possible. IMHO: Sounds hefty to me... the AI alone I think would eat up 80% of the CPU's cycles. And at the same time, (human) language is very flexible-- I seriously doubt an AI can be written to cope with it. (Heck, natural language interpreters are pretty difficult to write, what more the creation of words?) Even then, it would probably severely limit the usefullness of the app. I mean, from how it sounds it looks like it would be easier to attempt to decrypt the password! :) Then again, I might be wrong. ;) ===== the CyberLizard CyberLizard productions Why, did you think I was sane? cyberlizard.digitalrice.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
