How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat
> To his chagrin, it took CloudCracker just 89 minutes to crack the 10-character, all-numerical password he used...<p>> Remarkably, neither CloudCracker nor 12 hours of heavy-duty crunching by Hashcat were able to crack the passphrase. The secret: a lower-case letter, followed two numbers, followed by five more lower-case letters<p>So an all-number password was easily cracked with this method, but a shorter password with letters was untouchable?<p>Edit: I get that 10^10 is less than 36^8. I was more wondering how the cracker assumes, without knowing already if it's all-numeric or not, that it should try longer numerics before shorter alphanumerics and when it decides to give up on the numbers. I guess it's just known to be more likely for a good number of characters.