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Ryc3G2Ah
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 Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:03 pm Post subject: Dictionary Attack |
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Hello,
what does this mean:
- Substrings with length not less than, characters
- Words with all possible character cases
- Existing passwords from "SAMInside.DIC" |
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broken580
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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A dictionary attack uses a targeted technique of successively trying all the words in an exhaustive list called a dictionary (from a pre-arranged list of values). In contrast with a brute force attack, where a large proportion key space is searched systematically, a dictionary attack tries only those possibilities which are most likely to succeed
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mastercracker
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:19 pm Post subject: Re: Dictionary Attack |
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| Ryc3G2Ah wrote: | what does this mean:
- Substrings with length not less than, characters |
Besides trying the exact word from the dictionary, it will try also substrings of it. If you use the word systemadministrator for example with a length of not less 6 it will try.
system
ystema
stemad
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systema
ystemad
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systemad
ystemadm
stemadmin
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| Ryc3G2Ah wrote: | what does this mean:
- Words with all possible character cases |
It will try all the upper and lower case combinations. For the word admin, it will try:
Admin
aDmin
adMin
admIn
admiN
ADmin
AdMin
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| Ryc3G2Ah wrote: | what does this mean:
- Existing passwords from "SAMInside.DIC" |
Every found passwords gets saved in the file SAMInside.DIC. With this option, this file gets used in a simple dictionary attack. |
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