Nbvcxz v1.5.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-08-03 // over 3 years ago
  • ๐Ÿš€ Release 1.5.0 brings performance improvements for edge cases, improved thread safety, reduced memory usage, and more language support.

    • โž• Add Chinese, Finnish, and Swedish language support
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improve memory churn when creating a new Nbvcxz() instead of reusing the object multiple times
    • โž• Add automatic module name
    • Can now add a collection of words to the dictionaries at once rather than word-at-a-time
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improve Nbvcxz thread safety
    • โšก๏ธ Update cracking speed for different algorithms to match what's available today

Previous changes from v1.4.3

  • ๐Ÿš€ Release 1.4.3 fixes some performance issues which could lead to extremely long estimation times, and adds some new features.

    • โž• Add support for scaling the offline guess speeds by a hardware cost.
    • Set minimum entropy now is able to be set by passing in how much time you want an attack to take using a specific guess type.
    • There is now a getBasicScore() method on Result which emulates the zxcvbn score (0-4)