Nevertheless, you should be using Sha-256 or better. On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Justin Edwards <[email protected]>wrote:
> The mdcrack utility only tries to crack md5 hashes with salt up to > 55characters. > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Matt Kaufman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It is very fast to crack MD5 hashed with any Nvidia Video card with a GPU >> chip on it or FPGA. >> >> Matthew M. Kaufman >> Http://mkfmn.com <http://mkfmn.com/> >> >> 1-503-881-6906 >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 21, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Nate <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > MD5 is only one way. It cannot be reversed...However, it has been >> > "cracked" and is considered insecure by itself. >> > >> > Why? Rainbow tables have billions of hashes. They contain any and >> > every password combination you can come up with. All an attacker has >> > to do is take an MD5 hash and compare it to what's in a rainbow table >> > - and that table will show you the original value (a password). >> > >> > Here's a great analogy I learned: >> > You're a chef and you make spaghetti and sauce. You serve the meal to >> > 5 people. Those 5 people then add salt to their spaghetti. No matter >> > how hard you try, you will never re-create their modification to the >> > meal. You don't know how much or how little they put on. >> > >> > Hope that kinda clears things up :) >> > >> > -- >> > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials >> http://tv.cakephp.org >> > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and >> help others with their CakePHP related questions. >> > >> > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected] For more options, visit this >> group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php >> >> -- >> Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials >> http://tv.cakephp.org >> Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help >> others with their CakePHP related questions. >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] For more options, visit this group >> at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php >> > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this group > at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
