On 7/12/08, James Keeline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Gordon Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From that, I can calculate how many billion billion combos... > > > > There's a lot of detail in the Wikipedia page on md5: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5 > > It appears that the output is 32 characters with possible values of [0-9a-z]. > Hence your math is something like: > > p = 36^32 > p = 6.33402867 × 10^49 I should keep Wiki as my home-page (then i'll remember it.. :) ) thanks - 10 to the 49th is a lot bigger than a few billion :) & I am lower-casing the input, before I create / compare MD5 hashes.... & adding a rotating, salt.. - Though, the Wiki does say MD5 can be cracked... adding extra rotating variables (Im not telling people what they are) - Will make it more secure... -- G NZ community groups - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freecycle Auckland :- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AucklandFreecycle/
