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Re:The longer passwords in the Last.fm database by phpnode on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:45AM (#12452919)
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
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Re:The longer passwords in the Last.fm database by creshal on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:49AM (#12452951)
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.

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Re:The longer passwords in the Last.fm database by manmal on Friday September 09, 2016 @02:41AM (#12460068)
Yes, it's not brute-forcing then. That's what I was getting at.
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