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Re: Passwordle

#21

Post by ugjka »

core-utility wrote: post #15
politelemon wrote: post #4

Password is randomized on each load. Author has conveniently left a debugger statement in the code.

Part of me wishes the author just took common passwords from rockyou.txt so that they're at least guessable. Though random really does add to the absurdity.

It's OK, the goal is to find a collision

Re: Passwordle

#22

Post by aerovistae »

TYMorningCoffee wrote: post #8
politelemon wrote: post #4

Password is randomized on each load. Author has conveniently left a debugger statement in the code.

I did not know about the debugger statement until I read your comment: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... . Thank you.

Massively useful! I also recently learned you can right click a line of code in the chrome debugger to add a logpoint - i.e. "log the value of this expression when you reach this point in the code" - so I don't have to manually add console.log statements. Basically the reverse of discovering the debugger statement!

Re: Passwordle

#23

Post by DonHopkins »

torgard wrote: post #16
raesene9 wrote: post #3

nice, though I'm very disappointed the answer wasn't hunter2

Yeah same. From the source code, the answer is a random 14-character string, generated on load: function randomPassword() { let letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'; let digits = '0123456789'; let punctuation = '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:; ?@[\\]^_`{|}~'; let s = letters.repeat(7) + digits.repeat(4) + punctuation.repeat(3); let length = 14; let res = Array.from({length}, (() => s[randomInt(s.length…

I wish it accepted a given password from a url query parameter, so this url would work:

https://rsk0315.github.io/playground/passwordle.html?passwor...

Or the way bikeshed.com lets you configure the color with the domain name, like:

https://bisque.bikeshed.com/

Then they could monetize it by selling gullible suckers NFTs of urls pointing to Passwordle games of their passwords.

Re: Passwordle

#27

Post by barbazoo »

teatoli wrote: post #18

What exactly is this showing ?

It's a clone of the popular wordle game where you have to guess a word, except here, you have to guess a password but instead of telling you which characters of the password are correct it tells you which characters of the corresponding SHA-256 hash are, which makes this pretty much impossible to solve as the whole point of a hash are that small changes in the input (such as a different character in the password) results in big changes in the hash.

Re: Passwordle

#29

Post by culturestate »

aerovistae wrote: post #22
TYMorningCoffee wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did not know about the debugger statement until I read your comment: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... . Thank you.

Massively useful! I also recently learned you can right click a line of code in the chrome debugger to add a logpoint - i.e. "log the value of this expression when you reach this point in the code" - so I don't have to manually add console.log statements. Basically the reverse of discovering the debugger statement!

> you can right click a line of code in the chrome debugger to add a logpoint...so I don't have to manually add console.log statements

Thank you, this is the best thing I've learned in 2022.

Re: Passwordle

#30

Post by jpeter »

core-utility wrote: post #15
politelemon wrote: post #4

Password is randomized on each load. Author has conveniently left a debugger statement in the code.

Part of me wishes the author just took common passwords from rockyou.txt so that they're at least guessable. Though random really does add to the absurdity.

Or use a new password every day like worle. So you have a community effort to guess it
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