2015/01/13 5:45 "Ric Moore" <wayward4now@gmail.com>:
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> On 01/12/2015 02:47 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You all may wish to read this, from ars technica:
>>> http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/1/
>>>
>>> Very interesting. So interesting that I downloaded cudahashcat. I have 96
>>> cuda cores, and it was running the sample program quickly as it tore into 6
>>> char / 2 numeral paaswd combinations. :) Ric
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>>
>> Good for you.
>>
>> That article did a much better job of talking about cracking
>> pswords/passcodes/passphrases than my ramble did.
>>
>>> p/s for the sake of $deity, please TRIM these posts!!
>>
>>
>> Heh.
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>> Still trying to figure out how I pasted that post into the middle of
>> the post. I was dozing of, I'm sure that had something to do with it.
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>
> I humbly apologize to you as that rant was directed at ALL who let the thread be untrimmed, not you solely. :) Ric
>
No problem. I was just taking the opportunity to attempt to apologize to the list for failing to catch that before I posted it. I'm sure the attempt at sleep-recursing didn't make the ramble more comprehensible.
Heh. Unfortunately, I'm not sure it makes it less comprehensible. :/
Security, with all that we conflate onto it, is a hard concept to pin down.
Joel Rees
Computer memory is just fancy paper,
CPUs just fancy pens.
All is a stream of text
flowing from the past into the future.