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The headline is inaccurate; according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1921848 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1921848, he cracked SHA1 14 times in 49
by regularfry 16y ago
The headline is inaccurate; according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1921848 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1921848, he cracked SHA1 14 times in 49 minutes.
- pilif 16y agohe ran 14 SHA1 hashes of very poor passwords through his dictionary in 49 minutes. If these were salted hashes or even just better passwords he'd still be calculating. And he'd STILL be calculating years from now.
- cperciva 16y agoIf the passwords were salted, he would have cracked one in 49 minutes instead of 14.