Ask HN: Generate All Permutations of a Passphrase?

Re:Ask HN: Generate All Permutations of a Passphrase? by tgflynn on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:33PM (#22220967)

It's probably not difficult to generate the possible permutations but there may be a very large number. For example if there are 20 characters in the phrase upper/lower case alone gives about 1 million possibilities.

Also I'm not sure how you could try them automatically unless you have sshd running on the laptop.

I didn't understand the meaning of "s=5 o=0 e=3".

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Re:Ask HN: Generate All Permutations of a Passphrase? by GlassOwAter on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:47PM (#22221019)

I guess I figured I can look through and narrow it down by hand too. s=5 o=0 e=3 meant it looks more like SimPl3pHrase0fMine So, a few letters have the option of upper/lower/number replacement

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