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February 22, 2011  11:11 PM

Using John the Ripper to brute md5 hashes – Part 2



Posted by: Dan O'Connor
hash, John The Ripper, md5

Rainbow tables are a very very quick and effective way to figure out a password, but they have a big problem, and I mean big.  They are incredibly large, the more you pre-hash the bigger they get, they can be in the terabytes depending how many characters you are doing. The other method is...

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February 15, 2010  10:28 PM

Verifying System Integrity



Posted by: Dan O'Connor
barnyard freebsd, freebsd, hash, integrity, knoppix, md5, sha1

The team at isc.sans.org has an BETA version of hash checking application. http://isc.sans.org/tools/hashsearch.html I tired a few files from a FreeBSD machine I have, but it was not able to locate a match.  I am sure there would have been more success if files from a Windows based system had...

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