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Am I right in understanding that the passwords were hashed with MD5? WTF?
by adevine 10y ago
Am I right in understanding that the passwords were hashed with MD5? WTF?
- uptown 10y agoThey spent an entire weekend on their corporate rebranding. How long do you think they should have spent on security? http://adage.com/article/digital/marissa-mayer-yahoo-s-logo-i-helped-design/243990/ http://adage.com/article/digital/marissa-mayer-yahoo-s-logo-...
- imaginenore 10y agoWhile we found some MD5 weaknesses, it's not broken in the general case. If I give you a well salted MD5 hash of a password, your only option is still bruteforce. While you can produce two files with the same MD5, it doesn't help you to reverse a hash.
- rahkiin 10y agoProblem being that MD5 is incredibly fast, as opposed to e.g. Bcrypt, which makes bruteforcing so much easier.
- imaginenore 10y agoTrue. Assuming one round of MD5.
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- mkagenius 10y agoProbably old data then?