[CentOS] Another Fedora decision

Wed Feb 4 21:41:47 UTC 2015
Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net>

On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 14:16 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:

> Oh, and the program to do this can be found very easily.  It's called 
> 'John the Ripper' and has GPU support available:
> http://openwall.info/wiki/john/GPU
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_ripper
> 
> Again, the real bruteforce danger is when your /etc/shadow is 
> exfiltrated by a security vulnerability of the type that allows 
> arbitrary remote code execution or arbitrary file access.  Once the 
> attacker has your /etc/shadow, there is absolutely nothing you can do to 
> keep said attacker from cracking your passwords at full speed.  Well, 
> nothing except the password strength itself.

Thanks for the future details. My passwords usually contain letters from
2 or 3 different languages as well with non-letters inserted every 2 or
3 characters.


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Regards,

Paul.
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