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Security Bits — 8 January 2023
Transcript of NC_2023_01_08
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Truly interesting report on the lastpass kerfluffle.
I was most interested in the password-cracking industry that uses databases of common English words.
This raises several questions — does their database also include German, Spanish, Russian words? Slipping some of those in could increase the entropy. Next, adding a 1 or 2 at the beginning or end isn’t too clever, but what about changing an l to a 1, an O to a 0, etc? These can occur in the middle of words, not just at the end or beginning.
Sounds to me that a tutorial on the techniques of industrial password-crackers would be very informative.
Cheers.