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Re: online MD5 crack database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Furlong)
Mon Aug 22 11:33:56 2005
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:09:05 -0400
From: Steve Furlong <demonfighter@gmail.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 8/22/05, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> In message <20050822133020.C03571BF906@absinthe.tinho.net>, dan@geer.org =
writes
> :
> >
> >...the folks at Fort Meade had every
> >possible BSD password indexed by its /etc/passwd
> >representation.
> I'm sorry, I flat-out don't believe that.
<snip calculations>
Probably some details were left out in the telling. Such as "all
possible alphanumeric passwords of length 1-16 characters".
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