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Re: pwgen: non-uniform distribution of passwords
Jan 22 2012 10:48PM
Solar Designer (solar openwall com)
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:34:12PM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> $ ./pwgen -1cn 8 1000000000 | dd obs=10M > 1g
...
> $ time ~/john/john-1.7.9-jumbo-5/run/unique -v -mem=25 1gu < 1g
> Total lines read 1000000000 Unique lines written 697066573
Here's some further analysis of the 1 billion sample use...
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> $ ./pwgen -1cn 8 1000000000 | dd obs=10M > 1g
...
> $ time ~/john/john-1.7.9-jumbo-5/run/unique -v -mem=25 1gu < 1g
> Total lines read 1000000000 Unique lines written 697066573
Here's some further analysis of the 1 billion sample use...
[ more ]