• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    1 年前

    character N gives you information about the character at position N+1

    There is no point in a password cracking attempt during which the attacker knows the character at N but not the character at N+1

    • bjorney@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 年前

      If you know the key is composed of English language words you can skip strings of letters like “ZRZP” and “TQK” and focus on sequences that actually occur in a dictionary