Abel, I don't think you've quite grasped the numbers involved here. Let's say, hypothetically, that Bartiforums gets a million members and each one of them tries one random password, different from every one used before, once every five seconds, for an hour a day. It's still going to take them 17,335,601,010 years, which, coincidently, is longer than the current age of the universe.

in the words of post, fluke

No, just no.

I will personally promote you to Root admin if your crack my account.

yes, just yes.

sounds like a challenge...assuming you are uber geeky like sent it will be something compleatly random, with numbers as well as letters, possibly punctuation...methinks i need a program.

Having a secure password is a requirement of being a staff member here.

wasnt post a mod at one point? or something like that.

any hints?? e.g. length, no. of letters, numbers and other things???

There's no way they'd give you even the slightest hint.

Abel wrote: what is the correct length?

I think one of them said 7, one time...

Edit: Abel cracked Post's passy. There's still hope!

Real useful. <_<

ohh...7...hmm...Dial Up Sucks? you talk to him lots. Yeah but posts was 'password' not really that hard...meh...

Meh...I don't talk to him lots, I'm never on. I talk to Dramione Dwarf too much, tho . I'll bribe her for her password.

Hint? Yep. It uses the full range of ASCII characters - that is, 255 possibilities for each character.
And technically, if you work my maths backwards, given that there are 255 possibilities per character, you should be able to work out how many characters mine has at the moment.


Program, Abel? Any script is going to be limited by the time it takes to submit each request to the forum and get a response, but assuming that your program manages ten concurrent connections each managing a request a second, that is, 10 requests per second, which is really rather unrealistic, you'll only take 14,446,334,175,261 years, about a thousand times longer than the age of the universe. Get your hypothetical million Bartiforums members to help you and the proposition becomes almost realistic, at a mere 14,446,334 years - about the time between the start of the first Ice Age and today.

Hurray for ASCII art!!!


Wow. Random.

I hate math. Curse you Sent with you confusing math problems!

I'll get my friend to help me out.

YOU'RE GOIN' DOWN!

damn. i'm Cabbage at maths as well. might try that later tho.

i am sure all of us have more than 1 computer, we could leave them running while we are out and see what happens. nothing is impossible!

Abel wrote: damn. i'm Cabbage at maths as well. might try that later tho.

i am sure all of us have more than 1 computer, we could leave them running while we are out and see what happens. nothing is impossible!

THANK YOU!

Funny, it appears someone tried to do a "Lost password recovery" on my account. The IP of the person matches one of the member.... *sigh*

meh...i keep getting 1795 as an answer...sooo...you have 7 characters in your password.

Someday I WILL get the passwords!

i bet at least one of the staff has a 7 character password.