How fast is it?

Posted Mar 7, 2006 22:20 UTC (Tue) by barrygould (guest, #4774)
In reply to: How fast is it? by kevinbsmith
Parent article: Cracking Passwords with John the Ripper

Last time I ran John (in 2005 on a Pentium M 1.6GHz, IIRC), even after 2 days it was unable to crack a file with only a few passwords in the form of a 6-char dictionary word + 2 digits.

I don't know if things are different today.

Some people have been recommending using abreviations of phrases as passwords, e.g. arltr = "all roads lead to Rome", but if that becomes common, all it takes is a digital version of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations to break common phrases.
I guess movie quotes or song lyrics or something more obscure would be better.

Barry