online MD5 crack database

Steve Furlong demonfighter at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 11:09:05 EDT 2005


On 8/22/05, Steven M. Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> In message <20050822133020.C03571BF906 at absinthe.tinho.net>, dan at geer.org writes
> :
> >
> >...the folks at Fort Meade had every
> >possible BSD password indexed by its /etc/passwd
> >representation.

> I'm sorry, I flat-out don't believe that.

<snip calculations>

Probably some details were left out in the telling. Such as "all
possible alphanumeric passwords of length 1-16 characters".

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