Question: A dictionary attack can be augmented to try orthographic substitutions, such as 2 for z and @ for a. Assume a common dictionary has 100,000

A dictionary attack can be augmented to try orthographic substitutions, such as 2 for z and @ for a. Assume a common dictionary has 100,000 words and (to make calculations easy), all letters are lower case and the 26 letters are evenly distributed (that is, a occurs exactly 1/26 of the time as does z). How many extra substitute word possibilities are there, allowing @ for a? (That is, the attack would try the word bay and also b@y.) If there are ten such orthographic substitutions (2 for z, @ for a, 1 for I, 6 for b, $ for s, etc.), how many word possibilities would an attacker need to try?

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