[Bob-san]

I average 22.4m or so attempts per second on standard brute-force. You?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

No idea but I don't think it's that high.  Probably this crappy freeware I'm using.  I did noticed when I used the trials of some of the other software out there it seemed a lot faster. 

[Bob-san]

Get me your numbers and I'll get you my three. I'll take a screenshot. The dictionary attack may have to wait a bit tonight--I want to get a few HWBot points for SuperPi. Anyways--my Xieve attacks are running well over 1b effective attempts per second.... again, numbers tomorrow.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

I'll have to update you tomorrow as well.  I'm not at the location where the attacks are running right now. 

[ElGuillermo]

Hi.
I'm running a brute force attack using "ultimate ZIP cracker", on all digits+lowercase latin chars, 10 chars long.
It surely will take YEARS to complete, even on my q9450 @3.5 GHz (25.6 million tries/sec) ... Counting on luck...

PS : don't bother trying brute-force 10 digits... no results
Brute-force 11 digits is on its way...

Didn't get any reply from the different "Andrew Bryant" I've send mails to... Damn.

[ElGuillermo]

Don't bother trying brute-force 11 digits... no results
Brute-force 12 digits is on its way...

[colecampbell666]

I thought that it would take:

YEARS to complete, even on my q9450 @3.5 GHz (25.6 million tries/sec)

[Herra Tohtori]

I think digits means numbers from zero to nine. Lowercase letters, capital letters and signs added to that would take years.

[ElGuillermo]

I think digits means numbers from zero to nine.

They are for sure. I'm just eliminating possibilities... will eventually save time to note what has been tempted.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Current status

Quick 1-5 character: nothing
Brute force 1-4 character all ASCII values: nothing
Brute force 5 character all ASCII values: tried up to starting character " so far
Brute force 6 character upper/lower/numeric:  run is almost up to word starting with H
Brute force 7 character lower/numeric: nothing
Brute force 7 character upper/lower/numeric:  6 currently running.  Still working on words stating with 0, a, A, M, m and t. 
Brute force 8 character upper/lower/numeric:  19 billion combos tried.  Nothing yet
Brute force 8 character lower/number:  2 running.  One started at 0 the other at j 17 billions combos tried so far.
Brute force 1-9 digit numbers running with all numbers up to 261 million ruled out.

[ElGuillermo]

Damn... This Andrew Bryant guy had a very good password.

That could teach us all a lesson :
Never choose a single word password.
Mine was a single word, meaning something, but not in usual dictionaries.
Now I realise it could have been discovered in one or two days by almost anyone.

Now I'll use a >8 chars password, using uppercase, lowercase and some digits.
Brute force attacks will find it for sure... but in a thousand years, even on the fastest personal computers available today.

BTW : still no answers from the guys named Andrew Bryant I've contacted

[Titan]

hmmm... epock, exactly how much of this is irreplaceable? you said you know the general plot, right? So... maybe we can just start from the ground up?

[Bob-san]

I've actually not been running for the past few days--I've been sick and I wanted my room to be less stuffy so I shutdown both systems. I'll get back to running it in a few days I guess... I'm not over it yet.

[haloboy100]

Damn... This Andrew Bryant guy had a very good password.

That could teach us all a lesson :
Never choose a single word password.
Mine was a single word, meaning something, but not in usual dictionaries.
Now I realise it could have been discovered in one or two days by almost anyone.

Now I'll use a >8 chars password, using uppercase, lowercase and some digits.
Brute force attacks will find it for sure... but in a thousand years, even on the fastest personal computers available today.

BTW : still no answers from the guys named Andrew Bryant I've contacted

Mine is simple. No matter how good your password is, you're ****ed. The best way to avoid someone finding your password is to never even hint to it, ever, and don't make enemies. Simple.

[Titan]

once we find out were he is, someone should go to his house, and kidnap him until we get the passwords.

[Griffon-UK]

It's hilarious that whilst everyone tried my ICQ, nobody thought of trying my MSN .  I just decided to start reinstalling the SCP and found this thread!

Sorry to actually be no help, but I can't actually 'remember' the password.  It was password protected because the thing was being sent to testers.

I'll have a sit down and work on it (damn, its been years since I even thought about this )

[Getter Robo G]

Heya Griffin, (been a while)


  Is the file really worth all the drama over the last week? In relation to the contents (without spoiling anything).

[Griffon-UK]

Well, the music was nice, the Perseus 2 was sorta cool (although Dark may have released that a while back when the team fell apart) and the demo mission sorta worked, but this was made about 7-8 years ago whilst I was crashing and burning during my A-levels.

I'm actually worried about what i'll find if I managed to open the zip file

edit:  Ok, i've tried cracking it ARCHPR but that couldn't guess it and i'm drawing a blank on the password - it's just too long ago.

Call it a long shot, but Dark (if he's still around) might have the Perseus model file.

[Titan]

Dark? as in the guy who made the gorgon and stuff? there was actually something a couple of months ago were a bunch of people wanted to contact him.

[Snail]

Dark? as in the guy who made the gorgon and stuff? there was actually something a couple of months ago were a bunch of people wanted to contact him.

That's happened more than once. I think it's happened upwards of a dozen times over the years.