What about a birthday attack? a birthday attack seems to work against MD5 Nikhil
>>>Random strings are harder to get, but still possible with a brute >>>force >>>approach (a cracker that tries every combination of n letters, digits >>>and special characters that exist). This however takes very long and >>>is >>>not feasible for most. >> >>"not feasible for most" is a gross understatement. >> >>The MD5 hash is 128 bits long. This means that there are >>340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 values. This means >>that even if you could try a TRILLION combinations a second it would take >>you 10,790,283,070,806,014,188 years to break! >> >>A brute force attack against MD5 won't work. > > However a dictionary attack is much more likely to work against >this algorithm. That is not due to any weakness of the algo but due to >human tendency of picking works like "god" , "password" etc as passwords. >-- vinayak hegde > >_______________________________________________ >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
