1 Apr
2002
1 Apr
'02
7:25 a.m.
Sometime on Mar 31, Vinay Pai assembled some asciibets to say:
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.
try a distributed attack. use the processing power of every computer on the planet.
actually, thinking of it this way, wouldn't it just make sense to create a reverse lookup table of every possible password and its encrypted value.
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