Re: Password Cracking
From: Ernst-Udo Wallenborn (ernst-udo.wallenborn@freenet.de)
Date: 01/24/03
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From: Ernst-Udo Wallenborn <ernst-udo.wallenborn@freenet.de> Date: 24 Jan 2003 23:07:54 +0100
"Mark H. Wood" <mwood@mhw.ULib.IUPUI.Edu> writes:
> I think we have a case of violent agreement here. One side correctly
> points out that, *if all points in the keyspace have an equal
> probability of being chosen*, then decreasing the size of the total
> keyspace increases the chances of correct guessing. The other side
> correctly points out that *the observed behavior does not show an
> equal probability of choice over the entire keyspace* -- the portion
> of keyspace which is actually used is a very small subset of "all
> points", and argues that removing these highly popular points tends to
> disperse the actual choices.
I violently agree.
-- Ernst-Udo Wallenborn
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