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60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour (www.theregister.com)
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[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

We've known this for more than a decade and its only gotten faster. If people are still using MD5 for secret hashing at this point they have no idea what they are doing or horrible bosses.

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