I chose to start with a set of unsalted MD5 hashes because the MD5 hash function was built for speed -- which means that basic MD5 hashes are also easy to crack (and are generally not recommended ...

For instance, a password made of 13 numbers would take the graphics cards 3 years to crack, but add in just one more number and that rises to 28 years, then add another and it rises to 284.

How can one understand 348 billion hashes per second? The testing was used on a collection of password hashes using LM and NTLM protocols.

The data that was released were password hashes, or cryptographic representations of passwords churned through an algorithm called SHA-1.

If the password is strong enough, the hash can’t usually be cracked, since the more secure a password is, the more difficult it is to crack.

What’s to be done? The Password Hashing Competition is the brainchild of a group of leading security and cryptography experts, including some leading figures in the online password cracking scene.

Can you crack a Cisco IOS MD5 password hash? [I'm in beautiful Ottawa this week. All the locals kept telling me how beautiful it was today, since it was nearly Spring like with temps almost at 0 ...

A team of password cracking experts found flaws in the Ashley Madison code that allowed them to recover 11.2 million passwords from data leaked by hackers.

But those 6.4 million unique hashes posted on a Russian password-cracking forum in June 2012 only accounted for a fraction of the total LinkedIn database.

Researchers are using words from classic novels to crack the LinkedIn password hashes ...