▲ 166 ▼ 60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour (www.theregister.com) submitted 6 months ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works 36 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago (1 child) Were the hashes salted? permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* I'm not sure it matters. If not it's rainbow table time but they did use a very high end graphics card to test so it's functionally equivalent to salting (except for the tiny extra compute to concatenate the strings before hashing). I feel like it was just a marketing exercise to show how shit MD5 is. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* I'm not sure it matters. If not it's rainbow table time but they did use a very high end graphics card to test so it's functionally equivalent to salting (except for the tiny extra compute to concatenate the strings before hashing). I feel like it was just a marketing exercise to show how shit MD5 is. permalink fedilink source parent