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Posted by Oliver Grδtz on 12/03/07 13:55
Jerry Stuckle schrieb:
>> The other way round, if someone wants to
>> find an input to reproduce a certain hash in order to get into a system
>> where only the encoded password is known and cannot be changed, then ANY
>> of the inputs will work so IT DOESN'T MATTER if he gets "abc" or
>> "ksfjlksahoh3ndskjvcn" as an answer.
>
> And no, it doesn't matter which one the user uses to get into the
> system. Which is why my comment that it is only useful for recreating
> known hash values.
Then don't respond to ME who suggested the reverse lookup approach for
the already stated applications but to THE ORIGINAL POSTER.
OLLi
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