Re: Brute Force attack on VMS

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are an awful lot of combinations. For example, for even a 26 letter
alphabet there are
26! or about 400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 mappings from the alphabet into
itself.

Bruce Grant

"Anders, Claus" wrote:

> Dear all,
> has someone tried a brute force attack on the VMS ?
> If not, why ? And if, got any results ?
> (brute force-> try every possible combination of char to vms-char ordered or
> random chosen and the looking up the outcome (for example the 1st page)
> Claus
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