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Re: ADS Password Storage Protection


From: "Gregory Rubin" <grrubin () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:39:10 -0700

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And once I've got some free cpu cycles, I will be building a rainbow
table of randomly generated passphrases.  Between the two of us, we
should have some good coverage.

Greg

On 7/18/06, ab <abnerian () gmail com> wrote:
winshel () camden rutgers edu wrote:
> Thanks for the comment.  I'm still unclear - if I'm not mischaraterizing the situation - why there seems to be a lot 
of support for the idea that a 15 character windows passphrase can be a real phrase and be very secure.
>
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> Do you think there is - or will be in the near future - a passphrase attack?
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> Is there such a thing as a "strong passphrase?"
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I should write one as proof of concept.

*downloads wikiquotes db*

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