TheFlash428 Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 (edited) All these things being said--I can say from personal experience that using "foreign" or other special characters (¡, ¿, ƒ, ˆ, etc), will thwart most would-be hackers using less than super equipment from cracking your password. Most of tools used commonly used by password crackers simply do not employ these characters....but as far as totally "uncrackable", I would have to agree with field--impossible given adequate equipment. Edited April 12, 2006 by TheFlash428 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 All these things being said--I can say from personal experience that using "foreign" or other special characters (¡, ¿, ƒ, ˆ, etc), will thwart most would-be hackers using less than super equipment from cracking your password. Most of tools used commonly used by password crackers simply do not employ these characters....but as far as totally "uncrackable", I would have to agree with field--impossible given adequate equipment.you forgot adequate time as well....But no one is challenging that..... As the document says on the cover page:Obviously no password is actually uncrackable, in this document the term “uncrackable” refers to “realistically or technically uncrackable.” Please refer to the remainder of the document for more details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gouki Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 But a precomputed hash table (such as governments use ATM) *does* need to be calculated at least once...And remember, as long as it takes to make ONE table today, with this method, the government will need to spend 12,086,781x10^5 times LONGER to make a new one.... that is a hell of a long time Yes. You are correct. What I was thinking was somehow 'getting' a table already done from somewhere. Getting the Government one would be cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 lol...Lets start our own seti@home or folding@home for distributed computing of hash tables!hackers@home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gouki Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 LOL! I'm in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maelstorm Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 But a precomputed hash table (such as governments use ATM) *does* need to be calculated at least once...And remember, as long as it takes to make ONE table today, with this method, the government will need to spend 12,086,781x10^5 times LONGER to make a new one.... that is a hell of a long time Yes. You are correct. What I was thinking was somehow 'getting' a table already done from somewhere. Getting the Government one would be cool. The thing that you have to realize about the government is that they have access to way faster machines than we do. I'm talking about big iron, like a parallel super computer. Computing a hash table is so very parallel that it can be easily spread out over the 64K+ CPUs that one of these monsters have...I'm talking about computers like Blue Gene/L or Red Storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Why is it that when i do alt 321 i get a capitol A instead of the symbol you show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 (edited) Try 0321. Three digit codes are for ASCII, four digit codes are Unicode. But I get the same thing either way in this case, which I find odd.321-256=065, which happens to be the U.S. ASCII code for the capital letter A. Valid ASCII codes are 000-255 and vary by region. Edited May 6, 2006 by 5eraph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleko Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 As its been said, anything is crackable, just a matter of patience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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