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Extracting a Salt from an MD5 Hash

Extracting a Salt from an MD5 Hash

In December of 2011, members of hacktivist group Anonymous released a slew (over 860,000 records) of private data stolen from think-tank Stratfor. While I don’t condone the theft, I do 1) condone the attention it brings to a firm that prides itself 

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Cracking MD5 Hashes with the Webtionary

Cracking MD5 Hashes with the Webtionary

… or “Using Google and Yahoo to Light-Force An (Almost) Infinite Dictionary” I read an article recently about using Google to search for plaintext equivalents of MD5 hashes. Basically, you search for the hash (something like, “5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99″) and look through the results for 

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