Re: [News] MD5 / SHA-1 Encryptions Weakened

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Mark Randall wrote: 
Bad news for application developers (hence this post).

After several months of processing, MD5 and SHA1 lookup tables have been generated upto 14 characters in length. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/password_hashes/

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Any application developer worth his or her salt uses salting (and, at a stretch, stretching). :)

Tom
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