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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

character N gives you information about the character at position N+1

There is no point in a password cracking attempt during which the attacker knows the character at N but not the character at N+1

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If you know the key is composed of English language words you can skip strings of letters like "ZRZP" and "TQK" and focus on sequences that actually occur in a dictionary