Its funny, I work at a data center and sometimes we use a password cracker for our clients that complain about their emails being hacked and its amazing how many people still use plain old passwords. We usually can crack em in less than 10 minutes.
Its funny, I work at a data center and sometimes we use a password cracker for our clients that complain about their emails being hacked and its amazing how many people still use plain old passwords. We usually can crack em in less than 10 minutes.
Why a password like mypassword will be easier to crack than the password s0e1a2s3y4? They both have 10 characters. There are more combinations [ (26) power 6 ] to be tried in the first than the second [ (10) power 5 x (26) power 5 ]. Shouldn't the first one be more difficult even though it is plain English?
Why a password like mypassword will be easier to crack than the password s0e1a2s3y4? They both have 10 characters. There are more combinations [ (26) power 6 ] to be tried in the first than the second [ (10) power 5 x (26) power 5 ]. Shouldn't the first one be more difficult even though it is plain English?
iirc it's because the first one would be cracked in a first stage program, that only uses undercase letters, while the second one would require a second stage program, which does numbers and uppercase letters.