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Message-ID: <200403222156.i2MLuXLp008831@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: commerical rainbow crack? 

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:28:12 GMT, Richard Stevens <richard@...net.co.uk>  said:

> out of interest, anyone think  a distributed project using john would be
> useful?  something like the SETI screen saver thing... 

Almost probably not.  If the key didn't break in the first day or two, you're
probably looking at a Really Long Time.  Look how long it takes for something
like distributed.net to do *one* key...

You're much better off trying to attack the key management - can you scavenge
a password off swap pages or a memory image, etc....
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