I’ll continue to develop our application I’ve started last week by refining the layout of the user interface and continue adding more features to it.
First thing I’ll do is to add the keys and scales under the Accordion Panels named Keys and Scales. Here I’ll try to introduce another cool visual feature of Dojo framework, [...]
If you have ever attempted to write software that has a GUI (Graphical User Interface), you’ve probably noticed that creating both intuitive and functional user interface is a lot harder than it looks. A number of different skills are required to design a good user interface, skills often hard to find in one [...]
Now that we know how to calculate the number of operations we need for each type of password, and have a tool to experiement with, let’s calculate how long will it take for a modern computer to break passwords of different strengths. This is a bit tricky as computers have different calculating powers, multiple [...]
To perform a brute-force attack on a password, one needs to generate words for every possible combination of letters one by one, and then calculate the hash of each generated word to see if it matches the hash of the password in hand.
To demonstrate the basics of how attackers try to get a hold [...]