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I believe that with GPUs it's now faster to calculate possible MD5s on-the-fly than use rainbow tables. Hence the current advice is to use "alongpassphraseasyo
by nobody3141592 15y ago
I believe that with GPUs it's now faster to calculate possible MD5s on-the-fly than use rainbow tables.
Hence the current advice is to use "alongpassphraseasyourpassword" rather than "L33$Pa55wd"
- FuzzyDunlop 15y agoThis is where password management gets ridiculous, because you'll find a lot of registration forms limit the length of your password input to, say, 12 or 16 characters. Why? Is it not being hashed? I have a (possibly very wrong) inkling that a longer phrase might increase the chance of collision but even so, so many places enforce a strong password but force you to keep it short.
- nobody3141592 15y agoThe worst offender is NVidia. They have half-a-dozen different developer logins for different bits of their site - and they all have different rules = your CUDA one must have a symbol but the parralel Nsight one must not etc
- asharp 15y agoI greatly doubt that it is faster to compute on the fly then to use a rainbow table.
- nobody3141592 15y agoI think the record is just under 1Billion hashes/sec on a couple of NVidia Tesla cards linked by SLI. You need a fairly expensive SAN to pull 1Billion MD5 hashes/second just from the raw disk - nevermind the DB lookup.