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InsidePro · Active user

Let’s get the picture, what happens when a user publishes a hash, password to which is to be recovered, on the forum (to be more specific, let that be an MD5 hash “0040626ebe4c11e2f79fc581e0c9af66”)? Precisely – all who have free time and the desire engage in the recovery using different attacks, and it’s obvious that many of them do the same job, trying to recover the hash password with same attacks and same settings.

It would be great if the password could be easily recovered with a hybrid or combined attack; but what if none of the attacks worked out? The only option that remains is brute-force attack, which, despite that it’s most time-consuming, guarantees the complete recovery of the password, provided that the attack settings – character set and length of passwords to be validated – fit right.
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pexli · Valuable expert

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