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Then again, anyone who works on md5 password "cracking" for a living would likely already have the set of all 5 character printed passwords hashed and sitting i

by dedward 16y ago

Then again, anyone who works on md5 password "cracking" for a living would likely already have the set of all 5 character printed passwords hashed and sitting in a database ready for recall with no need to speedily crank through them.

nomis80 16y ago
To understand why your comment does not make sense, please read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29
- endtime 16y ago
  That assumes the Gawkers of the world salt their passwords...
- astrodust 16y ago
  There have been an embarrassing number of cases where an application has used the same default salt on all passwords.