Re:The longer passwords in the Last.fm database
by phpnode on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:45AM
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It's not a random sequence of characters, there are only 12 words in there. The cracker is trying words, not just random bytes and so the search space is much smaller
Re:The longer passwords in the Last.fm database
by creshal on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:49AM
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It's not trying random words, it's not even trying random syntactically valid English sentences, it's trying out song titles.
Which is a laughably tiny password space.
Re:The longer passwords in the Last.fm database
by manmal on Friday September 09, 2016 @02:41AM
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Yes, it's not brute-forcing then. That's what I was getting at.
Re:The longer passwords in the Last.fm database
by deerleader on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:50AM
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'97 quattuordecillion years' according to howsecureismypassword.net/, if the password wasn't thebloodhoundgang song title
Re:The longer passwords in the Last.fm database
by aianus on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:49AM
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It's probably a phrase from a book or movie. There are much fewer published 12-grams than 26^47.
Re:The longer passwords in the Last.fm database
by ProfDreamer on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:51AM
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It's actually a song title.
Re:The longer passwords in the Last.fm database
by maxerickson on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:57AM
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Which is really easy information to track down.
https://www.google.com/search?q=alapdanceissomuchbetterwhent...
UPDATE: I did some rudimentary math and think that top notch server farms would take something like 1e35 to 1e42 years to bruteforce 26^47 combinations.