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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:14:04 -0500
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: Sanguinarious Rose <SanguineRose@...ultusterra.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Large password list

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Sanguinarious Rose
<SanguineRose@...ultusterra.com> wrote:
> I am at a lack of words for this, why pay $4.99 when you can just do
> some simple googling? You can even search pastebin and get a mass
> collection of password lists from dbases. Add a dash of awk and maybe
> a pinch of sed and viola!
>
Why even spend the CPU cycles to process the password list? See Jon
Callas' post on the Random Bits mailing list: "No one bothers cracking
the crypto (real life edition)",
http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2011-December/001870.html.

Interestingly (sadly?), googling the hash worked quite well for me on
a number of test cases, including common words and proper names.

Jeff

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