"Perry E. Metzger" writes: | | This website has a large database of MD5 hashes of common passwords: | | http://gdataonline.com/ | | Presumably, as storage continues to get cheaper, this sort of thing | will only become easier. | ...... | None of this is new -- I'm just noting that the trend continues apace. |
In 1985 I was told by an MIT professor with DoD connections and a clearance that certainly no later than 1979 the folks at Fort Meade had every possible BSD password indexed by its /etc/passwd representation. Reversing a password meant to simply look up the /etc/password text on-disk to see what tape it was on and to then read that tape. --dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
