this all depends on the sizeof the passworditself... less than 8 characters starts to become realistically possible to crack these days. however, the other poster is correct, MD5 can generate such ungodly code that it would take considerable time/effort to crack something longer than 6 characters

Hawke

On Sat, 28 April 2001, "Trent Shipley" wrote:

> 
> One uses a quantum computer.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Eden Li
> > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 3:56 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: openbsd
> >
> >
> > Ummm... I think it'll take more then loads of time to crack MD5 passwords.
> > Isn't it like a 16^64 keyspace?  Considering it's taking distributed.net
> > more
> > than a couple years to crack a 2^64 keyspace, I'd say it's probably the
> > wrong
> > way to go if OpenBSD stores its passwords in MD5.  Er maybe I don't know
> > how this password hacking works.  Anyone care to enlighten?
> >
> > Eden
> >
> > From: <proudhawk@uswestmail.net>
> > > you might try checking a few of the hacking newsgroups (thats where I
> > start).
> > >
> > > cracking the passwd files should be relatively easy if you have enough
> > computing power
> > > and loads of time. I think there may be a password cracker program
> > somewhere that will run the md5 hash and feed you some results.
> > >
> > > of course, this also depends on what algorythm the openBSD
> > passowrd keeper
> > uses.
> > >
> > > all I can say is: good luck.
> >
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