Re: decrypted pwd

From: Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
Cc: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, "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 22:24:40
Message-ID: 3F5D01A8.609@fireserve.net
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providing one knows the original contents of the blocks in the md5 call.

Bruno Wolff III wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:53:26 -0600,
> "scott.marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
>>3: Compare your infinite number of md5 sigs to the one stored for the
>>user. When they match, you've got the original password, or at least a
>>password that will work just like the original.
>>
>>
>
>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.
>
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