Vulnerability Development: Re: AOL passwords / crypt() and online brute forcing

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On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 12:20:44PM -0500, Erik Parker wrote:
> if you take the 94 displayable ascii characters.. and do 94^8
> you have a possible 6,095,689,385,410,816..  So about 6 quadrillion
> passwords to try..
i think that's not the issue. the real problem is that people think
they can block access by changing a password from foobar111 to foobar123.

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