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minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months ago character N gives you information about the character at position N+1 There is no point in a password cracking attempt during which the attacker knows the character at N but not the character at N+1
minus-squarebjorney@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoIf you know the key is composed of English language words you can skip strings of letters like “ZRZP” and “TQK” and focus on sequences that actually occur in a dictionary
There is no point in a password cracking attempt during which the attacker knows the character at N but not the character at N+1
If you know the key is composed of English language words you can skip strings of letters like “ZRZP” and “TQK” and focus on sequences that actually occur in a dictionary