2015/01/13 5:45 "Ric Moore" <wayward4...@gmail.com>: > > On 01/12/2015 02:47 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> You all may wish to read this, from ars technica: >>> http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/1/ >>> >>> Very interesting. So interesting that I downloaded cudahashcat. I have 96 >>> cuda cores, and it was running the sample program quickly as it tore into 6 >>> char / 2 numeral paaswd combinations. :) Ric >> >> >> Good for you. >> >> That article did a much better job of talking about cracking >> pswords/passcodes/passphrases than my ramble did. >> >>> p/s for the sake of $deity, please TRIM these posts!! >> >> >> Heh. >> >> Still trying to figure out how I pasted that post into the middle of >> the post. I was dozing of, I'm sure that had something to do with it. > > > I humbly apologize to you as that rant was directed at ALL who let the thread be untrimmed, not you solely. :) Ric >
No problem. I was just taking the opportunity to attempt to apologize to the list for failing to catch that before I posted it. I'm sure the attempt at sleep-recursing didn't make the ramble more comprehensible. Heh. Unfortunately, I'm not sure it makes it less comprehensible. :/ Security, with all that we conflate onto it, is a hard concept to pin down. Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.
