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I found it quite amazing that one can find over 50MB of dictionary files on sites related to the "crack" program. I guess if you can think of a word, someone else has thought of it as well and included them in those lists. (not that I have used them in any other way than audits on my own system, but still impressive that someone has gone to the time to make those lists so large). Joe

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Re: Re: Re: Re: CGI and saving passwords
by freddo411 (Chaplain) on May 05, 2004 at 18:51 UTC
    The lists are so large because they include all regular words, plus every regular word with clever substitutions like

    s/e/3/g
    s/a/@/g
    s/l/1/g

    So the dictionary size grows like:
    orginal size * (Num of subs)^2
    (I think I have that right).

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