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Date:      Sat, 19 Apr 2003 11:42:27 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Jimi Thompson <jimit@myrealbox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: user toor ???
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304191139360.28068-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <a05200f1bbac4eabc1d55@[10.10.10.2]>

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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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