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11 points by adamneilson 12 years ago · 11 comments

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danpalmer 12 years ago

As mentioned these passwords aren't hard to crack.

Anything based on a word list is going to be inherently easy to crack, and with a predictable format like word-separator-word, it is even easier.

I realise this is a fun weekend project, and learning new languages is always a good thing, but I think it's a little irresponsible to make any claims that these passwords are secure.

Also as mentioned, if people were to actually use this for password generation it should be behind SSL, although I would discourage anyone from using passwords generated by a remote service.

ricardobeat 12 years ago

Having uncommon words doesn't make a password hard to crack, they're in the dictionary just the same.

  • namenotrequired 12 years ago

    Having long words does make brute-force cracking harder.

  • adamneilsonOP 12 years ago

    Of course you're correct and I don't claim that these are uncrackable. Just a way to practice a bit of clojure while the missus had her girlfriends over.

tzs 12 years ago

Assuming a generous 1000000 words in the dictionary, and any non-letter ASCII printable separator allowed as a separator, this is equivalent to a 9 character random password with just lower case letters and digits, or a 7 character random password if all printable ASCII is allowed. It's about 46 bits of entropy. That is a bit low by modern minimum acceptable password length standards.

cobrabyte 12 years ago

Should this not be behind SSL? Looks good though.

namenotrequired 12 years ago

Pretty cool! What does the "<huge number> to one" mean exactly?

cpt1138 12 years ago

john --wordlist

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