[rescue] $219 Octanes

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Dan Sikorski wrote:

>On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 22:25, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
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>>Wow, why such a big difference in time? Was it password length? The 
>>Octane is running 6.5.10m and it only used DES. Do the newer versions 
>>run something stronger?
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>It's my belief that the difference in time was due to a stronger
>password.  The i2 had a word as the password (perhaps the last name of
>someone associated with the machine), and the o2 had a word followed by
>numbers.  As i recall, john the ripper first goes through a dictionary,
>then tries variants of the dictionary (i.e.appending numbers to
>dictionary words), but i could be wrong.
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>	-Dan Sikorski
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OK, that makes sense. Mine was only 5 characters, so it was pretty easy.

shawn