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Comment by mlyle

Is it?

6 guesses and I have 14 hex digits (56 bits) of the hash, along with knowing the population counts for all the numbers. This is enough to run a password cracker and determine the plaintext if it's a readily guessed password.

Sure, it breaks conventional use of rainbow tables, etc, but...

edit: Eh, 14 characters. OK, that's pretty resistant to anything other than debugging.

parent mlyle 4 years ago

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