[Full-disclosure] Cracking the entire set of DES-based crypt(3) hashes. Interested ?

coderman coderman at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 20:26:27 BST 2007


On 7/30/07, XRR . <xor.rax.rax at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/30/07, 3APA3A <3APA3A at security.nnov.ru> wrote:
> > 5-10 days for full bruteforce? John-the-ripper on modern multi-core PC.
> ...
> JtR will only succeed if the password is based on frequently used
> characters. If it is truly random and 8 characters long, JtR will not
> be able to crack it.
>
> I am talking about cracking the *entire* set of DES-based crypt hashes.

gotta pay off that copacobana?  10,000 hashes for breakeven @ $1, not bad...




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