[rescue] $219 Octanes

[Dan Sikorski]

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 22:25, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> 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?

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.

	-Dan Sikorski