How big is your haystack

https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

by yread • 15 years ago

20 4 15 years ago

mathattack• 15 years ago

Is it paranoia to think that crackers could use a site like this to build password dictionaries? (Note: I'm not implying that's what's happening here)

vetler• 15 years ago

No, not at all. No way I'm typing my passwords on some random web page.

Cherad• 15 years ago

For those who are unaware, Steve Gibson has a long internet history. While I don't have a strong opinion myself, there is further reading at:

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/

To be honest, I quite enjoyed seeing grc.com again after so many years. It brought back a lot of memories.

praptak• 15 years ago

Yeah, another revolutionary method for strengthening passwords that relies on the attacker behaving like the author wants him to behave (in this case: not using search targeted for padding.) Padding with a constant char to huge lengths? Gimme a break - this method only increases the search space by a (number of chars) * (max pad length) factor.

How big is your haystack

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