[AusNOG] ABC Website Hacked

[Damian Guppy]

However if they are using a common unsalted hash like MD5 then it is
trivial to use a rainbow table to get the passwords in seconds.

--Damian


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Noon Silk <noonslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Tim March <march.tim at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I haven't looked at the dump but I won't be surprised if the passwords
> are
> > trivially decryptable if they're encrypted at all. 1Password is your
> friend.
>
> So-as to prevent continued mis-use of language here; hashed passwords
> can't be "decrypted". It is only possible to find another string which
> hashes to the same value.
>
>
> > T.
>
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