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16 characters password - dakai - 06-15-2015
Hi guys, first of all, thanks for developing this great tool helped me a lot.
Now, I got a password of 16 characters long, can be letters in lower and uppercase, numbers and the last character is a number 2.
I'm not a expert in what is the best approach for cracking a password, but I tried to run a brute force routine to try to crack it and it will take few several weeks on do it. So the question is what is a password cracking recommendation for this case.
Thanks in advance!
RE: 16 characters password - epixoip - 06-15-2015
Brute force would take much longer than "several weeks." You're talking about a keyspace of 62^15 and that is just not possible to brute force.
Best approach would be wordlist-based attacks, using rules or hybrid to append the known character.