31 Mar
2002
31 Mar
'02
9:23 p.m.
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.