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> that hashes to the same thing as a high entropy password. To be clear, it's not the entropy of the original password that matters, except for the fact that a
by danielweber 10y ago
> that hashes to the same thing as a high entropy password.
To be clear, it's not the entropy of the original password that matters, except for the fact that all common low-entropy passwords already have their MD5s stored in public databases. (What hashes to 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99? You can look it up with Google.)
You can come up with two plaintexts that hash to the same thing in MD5. You can't come up with something that hashes to a new MD5 value given to you, aside from finding it in one of those databases.