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0 pointsmasklinn13y ago0 comments

> 155a7a01308fa0807f722c5984bd91fb

You may want to read the last phrase of my comment.

> I find "high-end graphic card (~$500) can compute 10 billion md5 hashes per second" a bit unbelievable

And yet those are the numbers oclhashcat lite publishes for 0.10 on a stock Radeon HD6990 (10886.3M c/s): http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat-lite/

> Yes I realise that md5'ed password strings aren't random

Which is the whole point, and the knowledge the tools I mentioned use: https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/06/08/l... (note: the article is about sha1 hashes — which are about 3 times as expensive to compute as md5 — and is done on an older CPU, not GPU-assisted hashing)

> Just saying.

Just saying absolutely nothing?

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pbhjpbhj13y ago

You're carefully excision of the end of my "a bit unbelievable" comment misrepresented what I was saying and the manner in which I was saying it:

"a bit unbelievable [but that's progress for ya]"

In case you're comprehension is masked in some way the meaning of this is "it's hard to believe that this is possible [with such stock hardware] but I recognise that technological progress has brought us to a point where this is possible; tech progress can surprise one in this sort of manner" - obviously I felt that such verbosity wasn't required.

>Just saying absolutely nothing? //

So what's the plaintext of that hash I posted?

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