Re: Messenger/Hotmail passwords at risk

[Pavel Kankovsky <peak () argo troja mff cuni cz>]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:

> Uh huh.  So you are saying that, given MD5(password), password may be
> recovered by brute force.  And this is new/interesting in what way?

The interesting thing is he can (allegedly) do it at 2.5e6 tries/second on
an affordable machine. Being able to exhaust all combinations of 8 digits
and lowercase letters within 2 weeks makes such an attack much more
practical.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."