***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Tue, 21 Sep 2004, @ @ at 15:22:19 -0400, when Paul Cartwright wrote:
> Hello Mica, > Tuesday, September 21, 2004, 2:50:35 PM, you wrote: MM>> "This eMale thinger gotta spillclicker with all sortsa kewl scwiggly red MM>> lans undur everthung just to show me am awrite." (c) MM>> Lo again, a magic number - 99 characters! > this is a very old tactic, but I've never used such LONG words.. > another good way is to use a phrase ( OR TWO :) and substitute numbers > for letters: say " one at a time" > 0n3 @t a t!m3 > change all vowels to non-alpha characters. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is that long enough?? You never know until you try. :grin: Thomas said they already have some "enhanced" dictionary attack technics, which would crack such passwords for a shorter time than before, but I haven't tested any. Would be interesting to know how those crackers of the "new generation" manage with a mix of Cyrillic and other letters derived from Latin ones, and with various letter's "arrangements"/"layouts" transposing 8-bit characters to 7-bit ones. As I know dictionary attack would have no a way to resolve such a puzzle, so the only effective attack would have to go "step by step", or "character by character", and in ascending/descending order. Therefore, if you want to get in time, you use characters around the middle. (-; Anyway and whatever could happen, a "longer" means "more time", as I understand these cracking technics. (-: "More time" - good, positive. "Fast" - bad, negative. -- Mica PGP key uploaded at: <http://pgp.mit.edu/> once just before breakfast [Earth LOG: 23 day(s) since v3.0 unleashing]
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