[Gllug] Editors
David Freeman
freemadi at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jul 29 22:50:08 UTC 2001
--- Chris Ball <chris at cpan.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at
11:16:16PM +0100, David Freeman wrote:
> > I banged on the keyboard for a few seconds and selected 8
> characters
> > from the stream!
>
> This reminds me of the appendix to Cryptonomicon, describing the
> Solitaire algorithm and explaining that if you are 'caught' while
> your
> deck is keyed, calmly shuffle it rather than throw it in the air,
> because the keyspace is greatly reduced by all sorts of inductions
> you
> can make from a deck of cards on the floor and the knowledge of where
> it
> was thrown from etc. The deck is practically rebuildable, apparantly.
Yes I liked this bit as well.
> I'm sure the keyspace is reduced from knowing that a keyboard was
> banged
> on. It's amazingly non-random.
True, but it will take bloody ages to guess, its amazing how many
differnt passwrd combinations there are.
Thanks
D
> ~C.
>
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