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[Discuss] deadmanish login?



On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 12:40:04PM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 2/3/2017 8:47 AM, Kent Borg wrote:
> > I'll change it to 12-honey-denver-doctor then!
> > 
> > No one will even guess that.
> 
> A dedicated Hashcat rig can "guess" it within 5 minutes.

Assuming either:

a) it has a zero-latency, no penalty for wrong-guesses method of
trying passwords

or

b) it has the hash of the passphrase in front of it and is generating
matches.

Situation a is unlikely.

Situation b is sadly all too common.

-dsr-




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