On Feb 22, 2006, at 9:49 PM, Adam Ernst wrote:
If passwords are case insensitive, there are a lot more character patterns that will match the password, and hence a much higher probablility that one of those patterns will be hit (thus cracked) before precisely matching the case sensitive password.
Of course, in the movies, the password is always the programmer's dog "Fluffy," and this password protects a system that controls nukes.
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