Re: decrypted pwd

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, "Don V(dot) Soledad" <don(dot)soledad(at)uratex(dot)com(dot)ph>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: decrypted pwd
Date: 2003-09-08 16:32:45
Message-ID: m3he3n1brm.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com
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"scott.marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> writes:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
> > It is probably worth trying to spend some time trying to find a finite
> > set of passwords that are guarenteed to be generators for all possible
> > MD5 hashes (or at least those than can possibly occur), so that you can
> > finish the computation in finite time.
>
> If I rememberate correctificantly, it would take more storage than all the
> atoms in the universe to store all the possible md5 sigs. Or somthing
> similarly large. But if it's an excuse to buy a massive storage array,
> I'm all for it. :-)

I think Bruno was making a funny... :)

-Doug

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