in reply to Re^4: Attempting to create a brute-force wordlist
in thread Attempting to create a brute-force wordlist
Assuming an average of 10 characters per word (which is low, as there are many more 12-character combinations than 8-character combinations, but I'm not going to bother calculating the actual average length), plus a separator to divide them, that makes 4873763581670522880 * 11 = 53611399398375751680 bytes, or about 46.5 exabytes (or 48.8 million terabytes, if you prefer that unit).
Personally, I don't know anyone who has a few exabytes of spare disk sitting around to store all those words.
There's also the minor detail that, if you're generating a billion words per second, it would take 154 years to create all the 8-12 character combinations, even without writing them to disk.
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