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60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour (www.theregister.com)

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[-] khannie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not sure it matters. If not it's rainbow table time but they did use a very high end graphics card to test so it's functionally equivalent to salting (except for the tiny extra compute to concatenate the strings before hashing).

I feel like it was just a marketing exercise to show how shit MD5 is.

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