PASSWORD DIFFICULTIE

To: cypherpunks@toad.com

KK> 22 words, a good start.  But all will appear in a short dictionary
KK> list, 4 gramatical sentences, sentences with related meaning.  Not so

But will a dictionary attack work when the passphrase is multiple words?
Because then it would have to try all the words in the dictionary
grouped with other worde, and the permutations thus become huge.

i.e. "spinachwalrusgazebo" is three words, and to me, would seem immune
from a dictionary attack, because the attack only uses single words.  Is
this right?

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Bob MorrisG writes:

| i.e. "spinachwalrusgazebo" is three words, and to me, would seem immune
| from a dictionary attack, because the attack only uses single words.  Is
| this right?

	I fail to see why the attack can't be extended.  Yes, its a
lot of combinations, but fewer than trying to guess 'the 43(!) BROWN
FOxes jump over the {lazy} "dog."  Its a lot fewer tahn trying to
guess zlpfq*20M

Adam


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