Re: [Friendly Attack Request] How fast can someone crack MD5?

From: Lew Pitcher (Lew.Pitcher_at_td.com)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:50:49 -0400

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worsel@c112927lin.svinfra.compuware.com wrote:
> How effective is MD5 in practice?
>
> This is an invitation for a friendly attack to get a sample
> of how fast an MD5 of a casual passphrase can be cracked.

You /do/ realize that an MD5 value is *not* an encryption of data, but a
'checksum' (a 'Message Digest', in fact), don't you?

This means that there's no way to reverse an MD5 value into the
plaintext that was used to generate it, for the same reasons that you
will never be able to reverse the value 35 into a well known passage
from the Old Testament of the Bible.

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Lew Pitcher, IT Consultant, Enterprise Application Architecture
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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