Re: decrypted pwd

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 11:32, Doug McNaught wrote:
> > "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... :)
>
> But any true geek will look for *any* excuse to buy more hardware.
>
> Also, if I remember properly, the estimates are that there are 10^70
> atoms in the known Universe. That equates to ~2^233.

Yeah, it may have just been atoms on planet earth or the solar system or
something. Last estimate of atoms in the known universe was 2^150 or so.
Of course, the universe is expanding :-)