As a windows developer who has dabbled in UNIX very little… I’m getting into penetration testing now using BackTrack and Metasploit… so I’m having a hack at cracking the WPA passphrase on a router… and in the last 22 hours my old laptop has chugged up a massive 58 million attempts from my 11GB dictionary text file… these are big numbers… so I thought I’d have a peek and see how many rows are in that 11GB txt file…..
With a simple command I did a line count of the text file and found after just a couple of minutes it worked out there are 982 MILLION lines in this file…. utterly mad speed…