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60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour
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I mean, yeah. MD5 blows for this. It's not like programs recommend you keep an MD5 hash of people's passwords on disk or in environment variables, right Perforce?
Yeah using MD5 at this point is really indefensible and has been for years.
Yeah, unsalted MD5 has been crackable easily for at least 20 years now. 🤣