Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to Speed Up Password Cracking

Re:Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to Speed... by gravypod on Saturday February 25, 2017 @03:24PM (#13733632)

Can we make a characteristic scoring metric to help order password cracking attempts? Is there a standard distribution of characters in passwords that can be analyzed?

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Re:Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to Speed... by Etheryte on Sunday February 26, 2017 @05:18AM (#13736556)

Every password guessing optimization is about finding logically linked character distributions in passwords.

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Re:Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to Speed... by gravypod on Sunday February 26, 2017 @09:09AM (#13737264)

I still think wordlists are the easiest generic way of brute forcing passwords en-masse since most people still don't use password generators or aren't as uniuque as they think they are.

Sorting wordlists by some kind of metric should improve performance.

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