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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:33:12 -0800
From: Arias Hung <arias@...-g.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Incremental Alpha Quagmire
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006, Solar Designer delivered in simple text monotype:
> Oh, and if you're going to be restricting John to 8-character long
> passwords, you really don't want it to consider all characters equally
> probable. Just do some simple math:
>
> (52 ** 8) / 86400 / 1000000 / 2 = 309
<---snip--->
Thanks for you continued patience with my questions, I just want to confirm
how you come about with 309 so I can make accurate forecasts of my own in
the future.
(52 ** 8) <-- Sorry with my unfamiliarity with this notation but i'm assuming
this is 52 * 8 * 8 ?
86400 <-- seconds in a day
1,000,000 < --- average combinations/second based on current a hardware bm's
2 < --- ? Not sure what the division by two is for
Also, where are you factoring in the number of salts 4096 ?
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