HELLO PEETZA FOX
SOME STATISTICS WILL HELP US HERE
A SIMPLE??! (AHEM!) EIGHT DIGIT DICTIONARY WITH ALL ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS
TOTAL CHARACTERS IN OUR DICTIONARY=0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABC DEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
let us say we are creating an 8 digit dictionary ONLY
Using the Permutation formula at the link
http://www.mathsisfun.com/combinator...alculator.html
choosing the option Yes for "Can you repeat a number" when calculating in the link
values
n=62 (no. of lower and upper case letters and digits)
r=8 (an eight string permutation/password with 8 repeatitive characters)
Results=2.18340105 x 10^14 (218,340,105 trillion passwords/permutations!)
HOW MUCH SPACE AND HOW LONG FOR A DICTIONARY ATTACK?
An extract from using crunch (of course i had to kill this process..lol) shows the below information...
root@localhost:~# crunch 8 8 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRSTUVWXYZ
Crunch will now generate the following amount of data: 1965060950264064 bytes
1874028158 MB
1830105 GB
1787 TB
1 PB
1 PB (1 Petabyte!)..hmm...i need....1,787 hard drive of 1 terabyte each to store this dictionary..Cost for purchase and set-up?...
I would not like to do the maths..
Assuming that i am using pyrit with graphics card to speed up cracking (2X HD radeon 6990)...benchmark below shows how much PMK/s
this card is able to try (that is 215,223 PMK/s)
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ck,2981-8.html
ASSUMING I CAN PURCHASE SO MANY HARDDRIVES HOW LONG WILL THIS TAKE?
Time Taken= No. of Password in Dictionary/No. of PMKs/Password per Second tried by pyrit (with this graphics card)
Time Taken=(218,340,105x10^12)/(215,223)=1014483141 seconds (atleast 32 years!)
IF PYRIT IS USED WITH A PASSTHROUGH ATTACK OPTION INSTEAD OF DICTIONARY IT WILL TAKE THE SAME TIME (ATLEAST 32 YEARS!)
only difference is you do not need to pay for storage and monitor this process for 32 years is absurd..also i think the access point will not exists so long..based on chances....
I ask the same question you were asking..we all do....only to find out that doing the maths can give help me solve my question