Re: password cracking: one char at a time.

From: Saqib Ali (docbook.xml_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/21/05

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To: michael young <mhyoung@valdosta.edu>

    For systems that store md5 or SHA1 hashes of password, this might not
    be possible, cause a change in single character changes the whole
    hash.

    On 11/21/05, michael young <mhyoung@valdosta.edu> wrote:
    > Hi all,
    > I was wondering if is at all possible to discover a password one
    > char at a time.
    > Normally, you either get the password right or wrong (all or nothing).
    > Does anyone know if this can be done? Does it depend on the encryption
    > algorithm
    > used to encrypt the password? Is that a difference for 1 and/or 2 way
    > passwords? 

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