2 Sep
2000
2 Sep
'00
9:53 p.m.
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.
A human can easily remember 26 random letters from a 32 character alphabet with a little mnemonic method (eg map each character to a word so that it makes up some sort of dumb story). 5*26==130 which is more bits than computers can currently exhaust over.