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Passwords and Exobytes



curtis abbot made a similar cryptographic analysis.  HE wrote a simple
program to try decrypting unix password.  It first tries all
alphabetic lower case.  Then tries a few upper case letters.  Then
does it all over again with 1 punctuation character, etc.  The actual
interesting search space is astoundingly small....
dean