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Re: commerical rainbow crack?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:56:33 -0500
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:28:12 GMT, Richard Stevens <richard () tccnet co uk> said:
out of interest, anyone think a distributed project using john would be useful? something like the SETI screen saver thing...
Almost probably not. If the key didn't break in the first day or two, you're probably looking at a Really Long Time. Look how long it takes for something like distributed.net to do *one* key... You're much better off trying to attack the key management - can you scavenge a password off swap pages or a memory image, etc....
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