Comments on: Using Google to reverse MD5 and how I almost revealed my password to the world http://v1.ripper234.com/p/using-google-to-reverse-md5-and-how-i-almost-revealed-my-password-to-the-world/ Stuff Ron Gross Finds Interesting Sun, 02 Aug 2015 11:03:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 By: Eli Bendersky http://v1.ripper234.com/p/using-google-to-reverse-md5-and-how-i-almost-revealed-my-password-to-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-311 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:51:00 +0000 http://localhost/p/using-google-to-reverse-md5-and-how-i-almost-revealed-my-password-to-the-world/#comment-311 Salting has been a part of Unix’s passwd system since its inception, for this very reason.

It was prudent of you not to enter the password 😉

]]> By: ripper234 http://v1.ripper234.com/p/using-google-to-reverse-md5-and-how-i-almost-revealed-my-password-to-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:23:00 +0000 http://localhost/p/using-google-to-reverse-md5-and-how-i-almost-revealed-my-password-to-the-world/#comment-310 Usually the “random factors” are just appending some random text/timestamp to the hashed text, preventing duplicate hashes. Yes, this is very basic.

I don’t know if “most sites still use these methods”, but obviously some do.

]]> By: Eran http://v1.ripper234.com/p/using-google-to-reverse-md5-and-how-i-almost-revealed-my-password-to-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-309 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:40:00 +0000 http://localhost/p/using-google-to-reverse-md5-and-how-i-almost-revealed-my-password-to-the-world/#comment-309 Rainbow Tables are a very old trick (probably as old as encryption itself, but in the computers world became famous around the 70’S), today they are considered easy to be protected from by introducing random factors to the hash algorithm.

Strange that most sites and program still use such easily cracked methods.

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