Re: Large password list

[Charles Morris <cmorris () cs odu edu>]

Of course, you are quite right, it follows,
and it's been many years since I've used anything less than 512 bits
with strong internal state for anything relevant.

Still...

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Gage Bystrom <themadichib0d () gmail com> wrote:
> I think it simply makes sense though. As more and more common passwords are
> cracked by the multitude of boxes out there dedicated to cracking hashes,
> the more and more likely that its gunna turn up in a list or a site
> somewhere. Add in that Google is really good at finding long strings and
> numbers if they exist on the net and the fact that the entire idea behind
> hashes is for them to be unique....yeah.....
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2011 11:17 AM, "Charles Morris" <cmorris () cs odu edu> wrote:
> > This is extremely depressing.
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Sanguinarious Rose
> > > <SanguineRose () occultusterra com> wrote:
> > > > I am at a lack of words for this, why pay $4.99 when you can just do
> > > > some simple googling? You can even search pastebin and get a mass
> > > > collection of password lists from dbases. Add a dash of awk and maybe
> > > > a pinch of sed and viola!
> > > Why even spend the CPU cycles to process the password list? See Jon
> > > Callas' post on the Random Bits mailing list: "No one bothers cracking
> > > the crypto (real life edition)",
> > >
> > > http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2011-December/001870.html.
> > >
> > > Interestingly (sadly?), googling the hash worked quite well for me on
> > > a number of test cases, including common words and proper names.
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
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