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Comment by jefftk

Simple brute force is not a rainbow table.

Brute forcing 2^64 bits means calculating 2^63 MD5s in expectation. You can do ~100 GHash/sec, so ~2^37/s, so about 2^29s which is 17 gpu-years. So this is doable, but incredibly expensive.

parent jefftk 7 years ago

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