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Re:Pulling JPEGs out of thin air by tptacek on Friday November 07, 2014 @01:41PM (#8573985)
Not really, because it depends on collecting traces from the target, and if you can do that you can usually just read the password out of memory.
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Re:Pulling JPEGs out of thin air by bri3d on Friday November 07, 2014 @01:51PM (#8574028)
On the flip side, it could probably be used as a really slow universal keygen for naive license-key implementations :)
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