It's true that any encrypted password can be attacked offline if you have the hash, but if the
passwords were properly salted, it would be much more expensive to crack them because an
attacker couldn't build a pre-encrypted dictionary.
Posted Nov 20, 2007 16:10 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
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Ya..
Google around for 'Rainbow tables'. There are ones you can download for free and ones you can
pay for.
Just going out to pirate bay and doing a quick search I found downloads for MD5, SHA1, and NT
Lan manager tables.
Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability
Posted Nov 20, 2007 18:21 UTC (Tue) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263)
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The main purpose of salts is to combat things like rainbow tables.
Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability
Posted Nov 20, 2007 19:12 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
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The main purpose of rainbow tables is to combat unsalted web apps ;-)