On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:24:41 -0700, Joel jaeggli said:
I don't disagree, except regarding dictionary attacks. If the attack isn't random then math based on random events doesn't apply. In the case of a purely dictionary attack if you choose a non-dictionary word and you are 100.000% safe. :)
the search space for 6 8 10 character passwords is entirely too small...
Saw this over on Full-Disclosure. I'd love to know what inspired the HashCat software to *try* those 2 40-character passwords that broke... Subject: [Full-disclosure] Some stats about broken Linkedin passwds From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:55:10 +0300 To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk Stumbled upon this: http://pastebin.com/5pjjgbMt ======= LinkedIn Leaked hashes password statistics (@StefanVenken) Based on the leaked 6.5 Million hashes, 1.354.946 were recovered within a few hours time with HashCat / Jtr and publicly found wordlists on a customer grade laptop. This report was created with pipal from @Digininja ======== Ironically they broke some 40 chars pwd. Another list that contains seemingly non-dictionary pwds is at: http://pastebin.com/JmtNxcnB