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Re: strong passwords
From: miha () nil si
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:37:18 +0200
Barney Wolff wrote:
You're looking at the wrong number. The Birthday Paradox means that *if you have 2^64 things* you've got about a 50:50 chance of finding two that hash to the same value. But you still have to look at about 2^127 things to find one with a hash equal to a desired one. You're much wiser to attack the password itself than MD5.
Now, I don't have my copy of Applied Cryptography ready, but isn't 50:50 chance much too high? If I remember correctly it is more in the lines of: birthday attacks are possible, just not very likely, but finding something that hashes to the same value as a specific text/password is next to impossible ( very hard ). Yes/No/Maybe? --- Miha Vitorovic _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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