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Pan-Galactic QuordlepleenSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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A seven-character password, all lower case letters? That's a keyspace of 26^7 = 8,031,810,176. Crackable in a matter of minutes; seconds if you have a rainbow table. Given the publicity of his experiment, he becomes a target, and he should have anticipated that.
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Simple explanation for Rainbow Tables, so even the ol' woodsmoker can unnerstand 'em
woodhadnotheardofrainbowtablesbeforethanksSRsmoke
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