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Haha, brand new company with MD5 password hashes. Maybe they oughta consult about securities with their/other AIs more often. Hopefully, nobody did anything naughty on the site.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (8 children)

It's a good thing not just everybody can afford a raspberry pi zero that would be necessary to crack an MD5 in seconds

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

That really depends on the password complexity. Sure, you can crack a password of 6-8 characters in below 30 minutes, but anything more complex than that will take days and longer.

My default password is 22 characters long and includes a unique identifier for each service plus a checksum. Say as an example (similar enough to my actual use case) for Adobe I'll have "Ae" (first and last letter of the service) and "41" in a specific position (A = 41 in Hex).

That way even if I repeat the other 18 characters (including symbols, upper and lower case characters) it will take years or even decades on a consumer grade system to crack my password, and the hash is unique for each service/website, so there won't be any collateral damage either, even if some service I used got breached and my password somehow fully exposed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I guess then "hunter2" users are in trouble.

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