Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:10 am
It will look entirely different when it's done.volka wrote:copying code does not improve skills
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It will look entirely different when it's done.volka wrote:copying code does not improve skills
Well that is the basis of a brute force attack but all you are doing is creating an array. You are not testing anything.and you are only producing numbers.William wrote:I have always wondered, what would stop someone from doing this.
As I posted above, the array was just to give a basic idea of storing the data. I really didn't feel like making a basic storage structure and a search just to ask a simple question, the array was just something to store the values, or I would have been asked why I was just going through a loop. Also, isn't there computers out there that can do more then 100,000 a second?bokehman wrote:Well that is the basis of a brute force attack but all you are doing is creating an array. You are not testing anything.and you are only producing numbers.William wrote:I have always wondered, what would stop someone from doing this.
To be honest brute force is rubbish. There are 16^32 (3.4 followed by 38 zeros) combos and it's only possible to check about 100,000 per second. In an average human lifecycle it would be possible to try about 1.7 followed by 14 zeros combos which is just a very small proportion of the total.
Probably but not your average PC (which has more power than most servers. Using PHP is not a good choice either for this sort of thing. The other thing is a computer trying to brute force something is completely locked up and can't be used for any other task.William wrote:Also, isn't there computers out there that can do more then 100,000 a second?
But wouldn't it be awesome to fill up a 1.09x10^70 byte hard drive?bokehman wrote:To be honest brute force is rubbish. There are 16^32 (3.4 followed by 38 zeros) combos and it's only possible to check about 100,000 per second.