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Google as a password cracker (lightbluetouchpaper.org)
32 points by mcxx on Nov 16, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


There's a well-known effective attack using "rainbow tables" that's far more reliable than the crude approach of just Googling for the hash. There's tons of rainbow table based cracking services for MD5 on the web. Just google for "Rainbow Table MD5 Crack" or "RainbowCrack MD5".

This is just yet another reason to salt your passwords with bits from a good random source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table


The "randomess" of your salt is irrelevant. With rainbow tables you will find every letters+digits combination shorter than X chars. So what really matters is if your salt is long enough.


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