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Re: Passwordle

#91

Post by FabHK »

__s wrote: post #51
barbazoo wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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) res…

You can make a rainbow table of the possible passwords & converge pretty quickly Don't hash passwords. Use pbkdf2 or some better alternative (I suggest pbkdf2 because it's widely implemented)

> You can make a rainbow table of the possible passwords

Can you? Here? 14 letters from an alphabet of around 90 characters?

Re: Passwordle

#92

Post by VikingCoder »

moritonal wrote: post #7

There is like... four people I know I could send this to who'd laugh, it's so niche. Yet I also laughed out loud when I got how conventionally impossible it is.

Winners never quit. And quitters never win.

But those who never win AND never quit are idiots.

Re: Passwordle

#95

Post by eganist »

daneel_w wrote: post #94

There's something interesting to note in the visualized gradient distribution after guessing some common English words: https://i.imgur.com/hDSBaYw.png

That's a consequence of certain characters not reappearing in the hash as compared to the hash of the actual password.

This would become more apparent if this traded in sha512s instead.

Re: Passwordle

#97

Post by meowface »

samwillis wrote: post #41
barbazoo wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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) res…

> pretty much impossible to solve Literal understatement of all time…

A quantum computer could potentially turn it from impossible to merely nearly impossible.

Re: Passwordle

#98

Post by jfk13 »

onionisafruit wrote: post #78
burke wrote: post #66

This would be kind of fun to write a solver for. You'd burn the first few guesses to get some positional constraints, then filter a rainbow table down to viable guesses. I'm not sure you'd be able to get a very good success rate in just 10 possible guesses though.

If passwordle had a list of all possible solutions like wordle does, this would be doable.

If it had a list of all possible solutions, it'd take quite a bit more bandwidth to load...

Re: Passwordle

#100

Post by therein »

umvi wrote: post #82
jerf wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the debugger is open, Passwordle automatically breaks the execution right where the answer is determined. Now that's service.

TIL there's a "debugger" keyword[0] in JavaScript that auto-sets a breakpoint at that line. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

int 3 of Javascript. I use it all the time because webpacked assets make it hard to find the line of code I am looking for.
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