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Re: anybody know good service for cracking md5?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:52:32 -0500
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:02:20 +0100, Christian Sciberras said:
Actually dictionary attacks seem to work quite well, especially for common users which typically use dictionary and/or well known passwords (such as the infamous "password"). Another idea which seems to be cropping in, is the use of hash tables with a list of known passwords rather then dictionary approach. Personally, the hash table one is quite successful, consider that it targets password groups rather than a load of wild guesses.
Correct - the point is those are *clever* ways to break an MD5 hash of a password, rather than a brute-force attack. They work in several days rather than several thousand times the age of the universe precisely because they're clever.
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