AI cracks 51% of passwords in 1min

Re:AI cracks 51% of passwords in 1min by baldr333 on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:02PM (#37067648)

A AI password cracker ? How is this different then a brute force attack ?

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Re:AI cracks 51% of passwords in 1min by version_five on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:03PM (#37067662)

It's marketing BS (edit, that may be too harsh)

They do reference "passGan" which I assume is this, from 2017: https://github.com/brannondorsey/PassGAN

Paper is here https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00440

They use "AI" to generate passwords that are more likely based on actual choices, like P@s5w0rd kind of stuff. The paper that is, I have no idea about the company.

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Re:AI cracks 51% of passwords in 1min by Turskarama on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:18AM (#37071892)

It isn't. You could perhaps make an argument that it's more likely to try "likely" passwords first, which means it will find theoretically strong but predictable passwords faster but should actually take longer to crack unpredictable passwords.

And of course it's trained on password leaks... but so are the people who write password cracking algorithms.

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