I thought I would let you's php gurus know that I am starting to come close to cracking the Sha1 algorithm. And surprisingly it is an easy one to crack. So I would recommend switching to something like the whirlpool algorithm.
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Jump to PostTomorrow, this news is 5 YEARS OLD
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html
Jump to PostI apologise in advance for my naivety, but isn't the fact that you get one result enough to hack an unsalted password field in a login form?
If you get the hash (e.g. somehow from the db), you could just use the first result from the algorithm to gain access?
Jump to PostAlthough I'm ignorant about cryptology that sounds very logical.
But how comes Even 100 characters long produce 40 Hash character. It kinda abracadabra doesn't it?Not really. It's just a 'hash" of the original input string. The string is not "recoverable " from the hash. The original information is actually …
Jump to PostAfter many weeks of studying and attempting to reverse the sha1 algorithm I have come to the following conclusion:
I hope you have got great experince while jumping the hoops.
Jump to PostBoy! I thought you have given up!
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