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It just means to figure out what a password is,
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to brute force your way in.
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I'm going to go ahead and from a library called string.
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I'm going to go ahead and import digits.
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Now, this is a very easy way of just giving me
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access to the numbers 0 through 9.
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I could obviously type them all out on my keyboard.
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This is a little faster because this gives me
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like a list of the numbers I care about.
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Now, there's a bunch of different ways I can write this code.
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But what I really want to do intuitively is
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try all possible digits for the first value,
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try all possible digits for the second, then for the third,
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then for the fourth.
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So one way of doing this might be as follows.
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I'm going to use a keyword in Python called for, which just means do
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something for as long as I want you to.
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And then I'm going to give myself a variable, like in math,
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just so I can use something to keep track of each number.
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And I'm going to use a default value of i for integer.
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And then I'm going to go ahead and say that for each value i in those 10
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digits, I want to go ahead and do the following.
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Well, for each of those i digits, for the first value,
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I want to do for j in digits as well.
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And then for each value for my third placeholder,
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I might do something like for k in digits.
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And then lastly, I might do for l in digits.
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So this is admittedly not the best design.
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And those of you who've programmed before
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are probably cringing that I have this indentation, indentation, indentation.
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But it's a simple way of demonstrating, especially for those unfamiliar
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with programming, how we can try all possible first digits,
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all possible second, all possible third, all possible fourth.
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And all I'm going to do, bury inside of this code now is print out the value
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of i, j, k, and l so that iteratively, we should see on the screen 0000
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and then all the way up to 9999.
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So if you assume that I've connected my phone to this laptop,
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ideally, then, we'll have an estimation of how long it might take until we
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actually have cracked into the device.
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So let's go ahead and do this.
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I'm going to open up a separate window on my screen here called
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a terminal window.
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And I'm going to go ahead and run Python of crack.py.
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So in just a moment we're going to see is
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it going to take a few minutes, a few milliseconds, a day, four hours, or--
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here we go.
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1, 2, 3, go.
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So those of you who estimated just a few milliseconds were spot on.
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So what's the takeaway here?
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Well, apparently using a four-digit password
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is not very secure at all because look how quickly
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I, the adversary, the hacker in the story, was able to get into your phone.
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And in fact, I could probably unplug it at that point
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because I've gotten whatever data I care about off your phone.
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And you might not be none the wiser.
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So how can we go about improving upon this system?
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Well, let me propose that instead of using a four-digit passcode,
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let's use four letters instead.
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And we'll use English because that's what I speak well.
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And in English, we have 26 letters of the alphabet, A through Z.
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But you know what?
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That might give us initially 26 possibilities for the first position,
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times 26, times 26, times 26 for the second through fourth.
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But let me propose that we actually use lowercase and uppercase letters.
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So that gives me not 26, but 52 possibilities for each location.
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So if I do 52 possibilities, that's 52 to the fourth power.
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And does anyone want to estimate how many possible passwords there
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are if I'm using four English letters now, uppercase or lowercase?
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I'm seeing 26 to the fourth power.
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But that's not right if we're using uppercase and lowercase.
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It's indeed 52 to the fourth power.
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And I'm seeing "a lot."
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But here we have estimates along the lines of indeed 7 million as well.
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So with 7 million possibilities, you might think, OK, surely,
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that's going to be a lot better.
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And it's going to take the adversary a lot longer to hack into this phone.
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But let's try that.
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Let me go back to my terminal window here.
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Let me reopen now my code file, and let's go ahead and use not digits,
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but let's go ahead and use ASCII letters.
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For those unfamiliar, ASCII letters are simply the letters A
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through Z in both uppercase and lowercase.
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Now, here I have to go ahead and change this from digits to ASCII letters,
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from digits to ASCII letters, from digits to ASCII letters,
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and lastly, from digits to ASCII letters.
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Again, there's an easier way I could implement this code
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to be more succinct and less duplicative,
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but it involves some features that we'll introduce in another class altogether.
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But now I have all possible ASCII letters from my first placeholder
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to the last.
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Let's go ahead and open up that same terminal window.
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Let's run Python of crack.py.
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And here now is the answer to how long might it take an adversary
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to get into your phone if you're using four letters of the English alphabet
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for your password instead.
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So this time, I have enough time to walk all the way over to the screen here.
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And you can see that we're going in alphabetical order, first lowercase,
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now uppercase.
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But in just a moment, we are done.
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And we're down all the way to ZZZZ.
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