Re: decrypted pwd - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dennis Gearon
Subject Re: decrypted pwd
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In response to Re: decrypted pwd  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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providing one knows the original contents of the blocks in the md5 call.

Bruno Wolff III wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:53:26 -0600,
>  "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> wrote:
>
>
>>3:  Compare your infinite number of md5 sigs to the one stored for the
>>user.  When they match, you've got the original password, or at least a
>>password that will work just like the original.
>>
>>
>
>It is probably worth trying to spend some time trying to find a finite
>set of passwords that are guarenteed to be generators for all possible
>MD5 hashes (or at least those than can possibly occur), so that you can
>finish the computation in finite time.
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