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Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:25:33 +0300
From: Nikolay Kichukov <hijacker@...um.net>
To: full-disclosure@...hmail.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: password hash

Nice explanation Vladis, thanks!

Cheers,
-Nikolay

full-disclosure@...hmail.com wrote:
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> Wow Vladis shut the fuck up
>
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:35:36 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:22:14 EDT, Brian Toovey said:
>>     
>>> Does anyone know what kind of password hash this is?
>>> 'password1' =
>>> &c6;Ub&c3;&ab;&19;a&cf;&86;
>>>       
>> Hex format would be less likely to be mis-parsed.  I'm *guessing*
>> you
>> mean the hash is x'c65562c3 ab1961cf 86' - which is slightly odd,
>> being
>> 72 bits long.  A salted 64-bit hash, perhaps?  Or it might be some
>> home-grown
>> hash that somebody invented.
>>
>> If you know what 'password1' hashes to, it's time to do some
>> differential
>> cryptography and try hashing 'password2', 'password11',
>> 'passwor111', and so
>> on, to determine how many input characters the hash considers.
>> The next thing
>> to try is hashing 'qassword1' (which has one bit different from
>> 'password1')
>> and seeing how many of the output bits change, which will tell you
>> the relative
>> strength of the hash.  A good hash will have about half the bits
>> change on a
>> one-bit difference (and continuing through q, r, s, t and so on
>> won't reveal
>> any pattern of *which* bits change), while a bad hash will fail to
>> cause a bit
>> cascade and only a few bits will be different in the output.
>>     
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