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On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Jimi Thompson wrote:

>   Oh, and given sufficient opportunity, I can crack
> ANY password that uses characters from the ASCII set.  It's just not
> that difficult.

I'm interested in this claim. Can you supply ballpark figures in terms
of clock time, (or heat dissipation, or compute cycles, or dollar cost)
to give us a more accurate idea of your definition of "sufficient
opportunity" and "not that difficult"?



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