full-disclosure - Re: Take the trash-talker challenge!

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Message-ID: <E17jjDk-0001dE-00.2002-08-27-17-29-37@mail18.svr.pol.co.uk>
From: mail at blazde.co.uk (Roland Postle)
Subject: Re: Take the trash-talker challenge!

>Now hash consists of 16 characters 0-9, a-f. That's 16^16 or 2^64
>possible hashes. And hash is used as the key. So, effectively, you're
>using 64 bit keys.
>
>It's too large a key space to brute-force in 10 minutes for me, but it
>should be obvious that it's a severe flaw nonetheless.

Unless it's a lame key or someone has a Japanese earth simulator lying
around I don't see it being cracked in a week either. But this is
surely worth another $50.

Aliver, it might have cost you a hundred big ones, but this thread made
me laugh. Thanks. Let's have more quality entertainment like this on
Full-Disclosure.

- Blazde