Re: Uncrackable Passwords

I don't know what your problem is, but

1) What does the domain registration info have to do with anything? Everyone
starts somewhere.
2) I have sent this on forums for other OSes as well
3) This is the 3rd edition, have you ever published? I write in Word, and
save as PDF *when we are done*
4) Company is NeoSmart Technologies, we make programs and write whitepapers,
previously offline outsourcing, only recently on the web
5) Read the damn document without prejudgements and you'll see why we can
guarantee higher levels of security
6) about 68: read the document properly, it *lists* the 68 characters that
make up all passwords ATM

"PopS" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Computer Guru" <ComputerGuru@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,
For those of you paranoid about their security, this is the perfect
document
for you. My company just finished publishing this whitepaper, and we've
launched it
on our forums in hopes that it will make your PC more secure. As a matter
of
fact, we can guarantee it will!

Guarantee: How? What is your company? Where is the forum located?
Seems like you should have that info all right here.


Abstract:
"Every password today, no matter for what application or what it secures,
is
built on a base of 68 "letters" or characters.
====> Do you mean "base 68", or "based on" a length of 68 characters?
Long passwords can easily surpass 68 characters and some do.

Some applications use less,
but none use more. Brute force password cracking has become more and more
====> "none use more"? Someone needs to do further research there. <g>

viable due to the exponentially increasing power of individual machines
and
the even greater power of the government's cluster servers, making it now
an
easy and fast way of recovering any password.
====> Brute force is more or less old fashioned nowadays. There are much
more elegant methods being used today.

But there is a solution. There are more than 1,000 other letters that no
one
knows about!
====> "no one knows about"?? THAT is a statement from a white paper?
That's a strange white paper, indeed! Besides, it would never call them
"letters"; this is obviously phoney.

With these extra letters, it is possible to make passwords that
are, for all practical purposes, uncrackable!"
====> Much shorter passwords, "for all practical purposes" are equally or
more "uncrackable". In reality, it wouldn't take all that long for just a
couple of machines to crack a password with simply 68 "letters". A
permutation is no more than that: A permutation.

Link: http://www.neosmart.net/forums/index.php?gettopic=10

*PS If you like it, please register and leave a comment... we could do
with
the traffic

Based on the credibility level of this post, I would not visit that site
with an anonymous browser behind an anonymous browser located in Chian and
routed through thirteen servers and 128 hops.
Besides, doesn't look like you spent much time on that white paper:
domain: neosmart.net

created: 12-Jul-2005

last-changed: 23-Mar-2006

registration-expiration: 12-Jul-2006



nserver: ns1.micfo.com 207.97.197.210

nserver: ns2.micfo.com 205.234.232.11

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According to Google, you're only spamming (so far) Microsoft.public
newsgroups: I wonder why that is? Aren't passwords imortant to other
operating systems? I would think a white paper would be more amenable to
a different range of targets.

Go figger



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