25 Apr
2007
25 Apr
'07
2:17 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
In fact, if you were to start filling in the table
with a
dictionary/namelist approach, many of the "passwords" will actually match!
Just how common ARE "sex", "love", and "god"?
The remainder of the table can be completed using the nine billion names
of god.
Well not quite... The universe ended at the end of that story.
Rather quite hard to get the names re-printed again.
That is why the hashcode algorithm being used should
be kept secret, and
access to the hashcodes for accounts shuld be limited.
My gripe is all the stupid passwords needed to access almost anything on the
net, all kept safe until windows crashes.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
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