in reply to Re: Re: Password generator using a linguistic rule base
in thread Password generator using a linguistic rule base
The only people who would really be able to take advantage of such a technique are those with some level of cryptanalytic ability. Who know a thing or two about character frequencies and the human element. Heck real cryptanalysts can take advantage of a faulty random number generator.
back during wwii the germans broke the codes on a number of british one-time-pads. (Theoretically unbreakable).
It happened like this.
To create the one time pads someone would take balls with
letters on them out of a spherical cage. After each ball
was selected they would spin the cage (after closing the
hatch). They were not supposed to be looking at the letters
during the selection process. After a while they did indeed
start looking at the balls. Sub-conciously they would pick
letter combinations that they felt were random, but actually
were not. Speculating that this was the case the germans did
a bit of research, and discovered the the frequencies of
combinations and were ultimately able to crack a number of
the brittish one-time-pads.
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