On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Uh huh. So you are saying that, given MD5(password), password may be > recovered by brute force. And this is new/interesting in what way? The interesting thing is he can (allegedly) do it at 2.5e6 tries/second on an affordable machine. Being able to exhaust all combinations of 8 digits and lowercase letters within 2 weeks makes such an attack much more practical. --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
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