In Re^2: Improve password solver, tprocter says "I see your goal in taking a random approach at the guesses...", and this seems to be generally accepted as a valid approach although perhaps rather expensive in terms of memory and execution time.

I don't see the point of this. Why would generating guesses at random be preferable to sequentially iterating through every possible combination, e.g., for the character set given in the OP, from 'aaa' to '   ' (three spaces) for a three letter password? The only advantage I can imagine is that it might fool a login monitoring program that was set up to detect a series of sequential passwords.

In reply to Re: Improve password solver by AnomalousMonk
in thread Improve password solver by sulfericacid

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