I empirically agree with Michael about the time thing. I am currently trying Brian Renken's file. To do so, I created a 'xxx_yyyy' password on a file where xxx and yyyy are only alpha characters (not words), and the underscore falls into still another category in Brian' vi. According to the time remaining display the estimated time remaining for this vi to test all combos is 6Years, 117Days, 3hours, 1minute, and 10 seconds. I'm guessing that I may try to re-write this vi before then! (of course this COULD finish in only 5 years... Maybe I'll wait. Rick M.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Aivaliotis Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 12:22 PM To: 'Norman Kirchner' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Password This is funny. I was totally ignorant of Brian's solution when I created my own password cracker. Perhaps we can make this a LabVIEW coding challenge? Create the fastest VI password cracker? <http://www.aivaliotis.com/archives/lv/vi_password_cracking.shtml> Michael Aivaliotis > Well I hope this doesn't crash his site > > But here you go, hope it helps. > > http://labview.brianrenken.com/downloads.shtm > > ~,~ The Captain was here > <<snip>> > That being said, Brian Renken created a tool that will attempt to find the password for a locked VI. It uses VI server and brute force to cycle through characters combinations. If you at least remember how many characters and if they were all letters, you might have a reasonable shot at getting it. If you don't remember anything about it, you're probably just as well of time wise to rebuild it from scratch. There's just too many possible combinations to make this quick. If you want to give a try, you can download the tool from his website. http://labview.brianrenken.com/downloads.shtm
