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Linguistic Passphrase Cracking

With the constant increase of availability of processing power comes the need for longer passwords and hence the need for usage of passphrases in order to remember them. But are passphrases really safe? This session will explain how to crack passphrases up to 20 characters long, where normal password attacks most often fail, in a reasonable timespan using a normal gaming PC and a Markov process.

Speaker

Mikael Simovits (@mikaelsimovits); Peder Sparell

Mikael Simovits, Founder and CEO of Simovits Consulting, is working as a Senior IT and Information Security Consultant. Simovits originally has an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and is a cryptologist. He has also published a book on the subject. Simovits has been lecturing cryptology at both Chalmers University of Technology and Royal Institute of Technology / Stockholm University in Sweden. He is also a CISSP.

Peder Sparell has a master of science in computer science and engineering, and is now working as a security consultant at Simovits Consulting in Sweden. He also holds the CHFI certification and has eight years of experience in the security business with a relatively recent change of focus from facility security to cybersecurity.

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