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> even if it was hashed with MD5 This is what I don't understand about articles like this. Say we're using a cryptographic hash to generate the password from e
by eternalban 4y ago
> even if it was hashed with MD5
This is what I don't understand about articles like this. Say we're using a cryptographic hash to generate the password from even a commonplace phrase. Typically you will have thousands of random bits in the hash and you can grab a uint64 (or even a uint128 if you want) from anywhere in that (theoretically uniformly distributed) set of bits. Is that not a random point in a 2^64 (2^128) space?
- rlpb 4y agoNo, because in that entire space, only eg. 62^20 would be used, and that's a much smaller space. There are various techniques to focus on that subset of the space.