On Tuesday 13 August 2002 12:20 pm, you wrote:
> Makes sense, except if you use upper and lowercase characters,
> numbers, and symbols (as you should for secure passwords). I
> would think that with these kind of passwords, storing the sheer
> number of posibilites would get slightly large. And I mean even
> if it is easy to break, it's more secure then storing them clear
> text.
>
> Adam Voigt
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thing that really scares me about MD5 being used anywhere that's easily
accessible is what happens if 'pussycat' maps on to the same hash as 
'H&3ph!3s09Zw'. The crackers don't need the original password just something 
that generates the same hash.

Bob Parker

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