All possible password combinations

Based upon just a plain ASCII table, characters starting with the first one after space (ASCII #33) to the highest one (Ascii #255), that gives you 223 possibilities per position.

So you loop though all 223 in the first position, when done you increase the second character by 1 (start with 33), loop though all 223 in the first position again, the increase the second number...

Repeat until you get to first and second one being 255, now start the third position off at 32 and repeat....

With 8 character positions, that is over 6,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations if you stored all 8 bytes of the characters (assuming for simplicity that even a 1 letter password is stored as 8 bytes (1 char and 7 spaces)), that would be 48 million TERRA bytes of storage required to hold all possibilities.

Not saying it isn't possible, just a huge and LONG undertaking. Good luck!

-Greg

PS, pardon if i messed up some of my math, been up for a really long time...

OK.. So maybe i need a bigger hard drive...

I think that 500GB of data will be enough for me to run the test.. I just wanted to make sure i did it correctly.

Any idea on software that will do this?

Is this a joke?

To continue Greg K's math... there are 31,536,000 seconds in a year (sans-leap year).

6,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations would require 190258751.9025875 combination attempts per second for one year.

If you had access to a lab of computers that could each test 1,000 combinations per second, you would need 190,259 computers -- for the duration of the year.