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by phpnode 3569 days ago
It's not a random sequence of characters, there are only 12 words in there. The cracker is trying words, not just random bytes and so the search space is much smaller
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creshal 3569 days ago
It's not trying random words, it's not even trying random syntactically valid English sentences, it's trying out song titles.

Which is a laughably tiny password space.

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manmal 3568 days ago
Yes, it's not brute-forcing then. That's what I was getting at.
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