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Agreed, that the best reported rainbow-table attack on MD5 is 2^128 (i.e. the complete range of possible MD5 hashes). Personally, I'm willing to chance that my
by manarth 10y ago
Agreed, that the best reported rainbow-table attack on MD5 is 2^128 (i.e. the complete range of possible MD5 hashes).
Personally, I'm willing to chance that my password will be discovered via a brute-force attack within the next 0.65 billion billion years [1]
[1] http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2847/how-long-would-it-take-a-large-computer-to-crack-a-private-key http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2847/how-long-wou...
- leereeves 10y agoI think it does make sense to be cautious. A new preimage attack could be discovered - or might already have been, secretly.