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Posted by poster3814 on June 5, 2007, 3:37 pm
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>> Arthur T. wrote:
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>>>>> Are there password dictionary files whose entries aren't just single
>>>>> words but rather 2 or 3 words of maybe 6 letters or less concatenated?
>>>>> For example, "they red solids" are 3 words of 6 letters or less that
>>>>> concatenated would be "theyredsolids." Are there such dictionary files
>>>>> downloadable, or is there a relatively easy way one could be created?
>>>> To solve a recent puzzle, I took the dictionary for an
>>>> anagram program, and pulled off all 5-letter words. There were
>>>> about 5800 of them. If I wanted to create a dictionary of all
>>>> 3-word combinations of them, it would take over a terabyte to hold
>>>> the almost 200e9 combinations.
>>> Slight correction to my computation. It would take about 3
>>> terabytes.
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>> Hmm. Well, that would be an issue. Oh, well.
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> The other question is why do you want to do this? Precisely because there
> are so many combination, these can infact make for good passwords.
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I was kind of sort of thinking along those lines, too.
No big reason why I asked this, though, but a few small reasons,
probably not interesting enough for me to waste anyone's time explaining.
Thanks for replying, though.
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