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by num3ric 4714 days ago
I hope you were using good encryption Apple. This guy cracked 400,000 md5 hashed passwords: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WPny7wk960 He says even with password salts, it could be done.
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Unsalted MD5 has been extremely easy to crack for years. Not sure why the claim would be impressive at this point.
To be fair, unsalted md5 hashes are only one step above storing passwords in plain text.
I could crack your unsalted md5 password with my Gameboy Color.