It is very fast to crack MD5 hashed with any Nvidia Video card with a GPU chip on it or FPGA.
Matthew M. Kaufman Http://mkfmn.com 1-503-881-6906 Sent from my iPhone On Oct 21, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Nate <nathanle...@gmail.com> wrote: > MD5 is only one way. It cannot be reversed...However, it has been > "cracked" and is considered insecure by itself. > > Why? Rainbow tables have billions of hashes. They contain any and > every password combination you can come up with. All an attacker has > to do is take an MD5 hash and compare it to what's in a rainbow table > - and that table will show you the original value (a password). > > Here's a great analogy I learned: > You're a chef and you make spaghetti and sauce. You serve the meal to > 5 people. Those 5 people then add salt to their spaghetti. No matter > how hard you try, you will never re-create their modification to the > meal. You don't know how much or how little they put on. > > Hope that kinda clears things up :) > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
