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Hashcat can do 5 billion md5 hashes per second on a single gpu. Even difficult passwords are crackable in md5.

• Dylan16807 14y ago
  Adding six lowercase characters/numbers increases the difficulty by a factor of a billion. So if you look at a typical 8 character rule and go up to 14 random characters you're perfectly safe on md5.
  • Piskvorrr 14y ago
    ...which, sadly, will lead to a proliferation of yellow stickies. Depending on the physical security of the individual workstation, this may not necessarily be a bad thing (but in the most common case "anyone has physical access" probably will be)