Friday, August 29, 2008
Cracking MD5 hashes
I want to be clear, that I am not advocating trying to crack and steal information,
Gr33nN1nj4 has an interesting article on using a dictionary based attack to find out encrypted MD5 information.
Background: MD5 is a one-way encryption algorithim (also known as a Cryptographic hash). These hashes are used by many software/web based programs to securely store confidential information such as passwords.
You may have often heard that it is very important when choosing a password, to choose one that contains lots of alpha-numeric characters, including special characters like "@ . !" etc. This tutorial helps to explain why if you pick a password like "password" it can be hacked literally in seconds !
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Gr33nN1nj4 has an interesting article on using a dictionary based attack to find out encrypted MD5 information.
Background: MD5 is a one-way encryption algorithim (also known as a Cryptographic hash). These hashes are used by many software/web based programs to securely store confidential information such as passwords.
You may have often heard that it is very important when choosing a password, to choose one that contains lots of alpha-numeric characters, including special characters like "@ . !" etc. This tutorial helps to explain why if you pick a password like "password" it can be hacked literally in seconds !
Read More...
Labels: cracking, password-tips, passwords, security
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