This is now the official end on cracking generated passwords here. After running for 77 days and 3 hours not even a single password was cracked. So this is the last status report: guesses: 0 time: 77:03:40:35 c/s: 971 trying: 055ud And that’s all folks. Hope you’ve enjoyed the experiment.
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That’s where logic ends
Logitech MX310 vs G5
After five years of quite fine service, my Logitech MX310 mouse broke down. Personally, it’s a big loss, as we have had many lan parties together. As ranting doesn’t help, I was forced to go out to the shopping center for getting a new one. But as the MX310 isn’t produced anymore, I had to look for a […]
Patch me gently
Have you ever asked yourself what a patch exactly is? Well – let’s take a closer look at the things your mother used to fix your trousers – a patch. That’s quite close as it fixes a hole. But patches in the it field can be even more than just a fix. If you want to see a […]
Login via Bluethooth
If you try to go over the top with some things, then you should really do it instead of just using some tiny hacks. What about logging into your computer using a mobile phone? Sounds cool, huh? So let’s use it and get to work. As the title already says, you will need a bluetooth enabled phone, a […]
Living without aRtsd isn’t bad at all
aRts is the old KDE Sound daemon which appeared around Version 2.0 of the KDE. Its purpose was mixing multiple music channels in real time – in other words playing a beep sound while playing music and so on as the common soundcard wasn’t able to do this. Later on hardware and drivers moved on and the main […]
Cracking passwords – status report
Fifty days have passed since John The Ripper started cracking on the password file. As you can see, not even one password was guessed by now: guesses: 0 time: 50:06:35:40 c/s: 972 trying: ns4k7y Regarding my password policy, which is changing my passwords every month, our attacker would have lost already. I’ll proceed with the cracking for a […]