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Re: online MD5 crack database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Mon Aug 22 09:36:43 2005
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From: dan@geer.org
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:59:11 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:30:20 -0400
"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
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