01-14-2019, 03:02 PM
(01-14-2019, 02:26 PM)carmitchel Wrote: Just remembering where a few characters were would reduce the keyspace drastically. Or maybe you remember that the first 3 characters were capitals and the last was a number. Or maybe something about the numbers -my point is that anything you remember can make a major difference. This is always where I start- first, is the password really lost? Second, are we really looking at a true 20-character keyspace.
It doesn't really matter in this case. Even if he were to remember ten of the twenty characters correctly, bruteforcing the other ten chars would still be infeasible with ?l?u?d.