Category Archives: dictionary

Is a sufficiently long password unsafe just because it only consists of 2-3 letter long mixed-case dictionary words and numbers?

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Entropy/Length/Complexity of a password is pretty straight forward and cant really vary much.
For Dictionary Similarity, i would assume that a software just checks how many characters in a password would need to change to match any Diction… Continue reading Is a sufficiently long password unsafe just because it only consists of 2-3 letter long mixed-case dictionary words and numbers?→

After a password leak, is there a Levenshtein distance from which one a newly derivated password can be considered safe?

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After a password leak, is there a Levenshtein distance from which one a newly derivated password can be considered safe?
I assume yes, given that if e.g. the word was "password", and the new one is "drowssap", the dista… Continue reading After a password leak, is there a Levenshtein distance from which one a newly derivated password can be considered safe?→

Are dictionary and rainbow table attacks a subset of brute force attacks or are they seperate?

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This is more of a question on the actual use of the terms rather than the definitions, so my question is this:
Are dictionary and rainbow table attacks a type of brute force attack or are they different entirely? Would it be okay to call a… Continue reading Are dictionary and rainbow table attacks a subset of brute force attacks or are they seperate?→