Cracking My Own Reddit Password

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Post by _gjav » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 5:44 PM UTC

Cracking My Own Reddit Password
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Re: Cracking My Own Reddit Password

#2

Post by snek » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 6:10 PM UTC

mfw already posted like two weeks ago

Re: Cracking My Own Reddit Password

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Post by Retr0spectrum » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 6:12 PM UTC

This sort of challenge comes up in CTFs quite often. Here's a writeup of one from PicoCTF 2017 (not mine): https://github.com/Caesurus/PicoCTF2017/tree/master/l3_noeye...

Re: Cracking My Own Reddit Password

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Post by kordless » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 6:15 PM UTC

Considering how much effort this took, I'm wondering if learning to be more patient might also be an option?

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Post by ColinWright » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 6:17 PM UTC

snek wrote: post #2

mfw already posted like two weeks ago

You're too optimistic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14108223 (17 days)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14076918 (20 days)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14071188 (21 days)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14054289 (23 days)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14051671 (24 days)

None have any comments, very few upvotes, so maybe it's worth another chance. Personally, I found it unreadable. I'm sure others will find it fascinating and be able to get past the IN YOUR FACE style and flashing graphics.

Oh, and FWIW, I didn't downvote you.

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Post by glubGlub » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 6:31 PM UTC

snek wrote: post #2

mfw already posted like two weeks ago

And it has NOTHING TO DO WITH REDDIT.

Re: Cracking My Own Reddit Password

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 6:36 PM UTC

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Re: Cracking My Own Reddit Password

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Post by jedberg » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 6:37 PM UTC

Clickbait title much? This basically has nothing at all to do with reddit. You could replace the word reddit with Facebook in this article and it would be exactly the same.

That being said, it was pretty clever to take advantage of an enumeration attack on another service that wasn't protecting against enumeration attacks on the feature because frankly, why would they?

Re: Cracking My Own Reddit Password

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Post by stu-harvey » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 6:43 PM UTC

Working link: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-time-i-had-to-crack-my-o...

Re: Cracking My Own Reddit Password

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Post by wand3r » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 6:51 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #8

Clickbait title much? This basically has nothing at all to do with reddit. You could replace the word reddit with Facebook in this article and it would be exactly the same. That being said, it was pretty clever to take advantage of an enumeration attack on another service that wasn't protecting against enumeration attacks on the feature because frankly, why would they?

> click bait title

No. I went in expecting it to be about a guy who lost his own password to Reddit and had to crack it.

Spoiler: That's what the article was about.