On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Chris Cinelli <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> According to: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74164/www2007.pdf *~20%
> of Fidelity, ~20% of NY Times, ~15% of Paypal* have a password with bit
> strength of 30 or less. According to that study, this mean that If I know
> the hash and salt, you need to try just 2^30 total combinations to find the
> password of 45% of Paypal users.  Using a ATI HD 5970 (that you can find at
> $499 at Buy.com and http://www.golubev.com/hashgpu.htm you can try
> 2,300,000 SHA1 hashes a second.
>
>
>
No you can't - you'd need 45% of PayPal User's usernames... And the db table
of passwords to check against...neither of which is trivial to get.

if it was this easy, everyone would have 45% of paypal user's passwords....

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