At 12:00 PM 8/31/00 -0400, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
>No but I feel free to type a hundred or so, but that's beside the
>point. The claim made was that anything a human can remember, a
>computer can brute force, this was simply one very clear example that
>it simply was not true, as I rather thoroughly established.
Anything large that a human can remember has enough structure so that you
don't need brute force, you use a dictionary-based attack.
..in fact, it is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature
--Jargon File 4.2.2