What happened to OC? - CLOSED Carnage?!
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What did you do today?

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Tiddy-bits:

Had my HUET and offshore Survival training today, along with fire fighting and first aid.... I didn't drown so that's a plus.

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About 3 days ago I wondered how long it would take to bruteforce a pretty basic password. So I wrote a quick C program that guessed every permutation against a 10 character password string. I also had it write every guess to a text file and print it to the screen so I could see how far along it was. I was curious to see how much longer it would take so I calculated the amount of possible permutations for 10 characters using just lower case english letters. Kinda wish I checked this first because its 19,275,223,968,000 permutations. My text file is at 107,593,160,516 bytes (100gbs) right now, so assuming that a 10 character entry is 10 bytes and then another 2 for the newline character(windows), I have only 8,966,096,709 or so entries. If everything gets printed out, my little text file will be 231.302687616 terabytes.

 

My guess is that I am going to run out of space far before I am ever able to bruteforce the password. I have about 410 gbs, so I probably have until the middle of next week. And then I'll probably spend about as much time trying to delete this file.

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7 hours ago, Kru said:

About 3 days ago I wondered how long it would take to bruteforce a pretty basic password. So I wrote a quick C program that guessed every permutation against a 10 character password string. I also had it write every guess to a text file and print it to the screen so I could see how far along it was. I was curious to see how much longer it would take so I calculated the amount of possible permutations for 10 characters using just lower case english letters. Kinda wish I checked this first because its 19,275,223,968,000 permutations. My text file is at 107,593,160,516 bytes (100gbs) right now, so assuming that a 10 character entry is 10 bytes and then another 2 for the newline character(windows), I have only 8,966,096,709 or so entries. If everything gets printed out, my little text file will be 231.302687616 terabytes.

 

My guess is that I am going to run out of space far before I am ever able to bruteforce the password. I have about 410 gbs, so I probably have until the middle of next week. And then I'll probably spend about as much time trying to delete this file.

 

R.I.P. HDD

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