CDR: Re: Is kerberos broken?

petro petro at bounty.org
Tue Sep 5 01:58:37 PDT 2000


>petro wrote:
>>          Of course, a *simple* substitution of one word (or even
>>  spaces) would make this *much* harder.
>>
>>          "Friends, Romulans, fellow countrymen, lend me your beers..."
>
>not likely. crack has been guessing simple substitutions for years.

	Crack has been guessing "simple" substitutions at the character level.

	It gets a bit unwieldy and time consuming when running brute 
force attack against a 50 or 60 character string.

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