Timeline for Why are brute-force password-cracking attacks not automatically detected and thwarted?
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| Jun 29, 2014 at 11:58 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Along with everything else, keep in mind that if a baddie has a bot network they can make the attempt through multiple bots, so that no single IP address racks up too many failed attempts. | |
| Jun 28, 2014 at 7:04 | comment | added | idmean | No I didn't realized that writing "nearly impossible" and "trying every combination" would be more unreadable. I'm sorry for you that you can't understand a well meant note. | |
| Jun 28, 2014 at 1:01 | comment | added | kjo | @wumm: do you realize how utterly unreadable posts become when they attempt to anticipate and cover for quibbles like yours? | |
| S Jun 27, 2014 at 15:38 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Copy edited (e.g. ref. <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/AKA>). Removed meta information.
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| Jun 27, 2014 at 15:38 | comment | added | Cruncher | @wumm There's nothing wrong with iterating over an infinite set :) Since no password itself has an infinite number of characters, you will iterate to it eventually | |
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| Jun 26, 2014 at 19:12 | comment | added | M. Lanza | Possible duplicate of this question. | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 17:59 | comment | added | LatinSuD | The question is a little too generic, so you have several kind of answers. Are you referring to internet servers, lan servers, or local software? | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 17:59 | comment | added | Andrew Hoffman | arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/… Passphrases are still vulnerable to dictionary attacks, so you can't get too lazy with them. | |
| S Jun 26, 2014 at 17:24 | history | suggested | zoplonix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
tl:dr and short mean the same thing
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| Jun 26, 2014 at 16:25 | comment | added | idmean | There is no password which is "impossible to crack by brute force". It possibly will take very very long but one the day the password will be cracked. BTW your set of "all possible passwords" is (theoretically) infinitely. | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 16:15 | answer | added | sixtyfootersdude | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 16:02 | answer | added | Phil Perry | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 15:25 | answer | added | Damon | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 14:18 | answer | added | PiTheNumber | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 13:51 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSecurity/status/482159143772778497 | ||
| Jun 26, 2014 at 13:49 | vote | accept | kjo | ||
| Jun 26, 2014 at 13:44 | answer | added | AJ Henderson | timeline score: 58 | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 13:31 | history | asked | kjo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |