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by eterm 4794 days ago
Is bogap a dictionary word?

What I'm describing are passwords like

T1g3rF33t Cam3lT03

etc.

All dictionary stuff along a theme, but made "secure" by applying a zero-entropy substitution of all occurrences of (L,O,A,E) with (1,0,4,3).

Given that crackers know people do this, they add them to their dictionary attack routines so this is no more secure.

Given I'm still fighting with them over, "don't store passwords plain text" I've not even begun to attack them over this practice yet.

1 comments

Ha no...I just randomly typed in symbols. Guess it does look kind of "wordish" though.