full-disclosure - Re: EasyJet is storing user passwords in the clear

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Message-ID: <28f529ba1002250739u523b8858i318b93acce615aca@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:39:18 -0700
From: Michael Neal Vasquez <mnv@...mni.princeton.edu>
To: Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: EasyJet is storing user passwords in the clear

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com> wrote:

> Sai,
>
>    I see where you're coming from, but what are the most recent statistics
> on the effectiveness of hash cracking?  Isn't it something like 70% of the
> passwords in the field can be cracked with a minimal amount of brute
> forcing?
>
>

70% ?

Plain MD5 perhaps, but I don't think salted, or sha1, etc, have anywhere
near such high success rates.

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