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05-05-2011, 03:57 AM
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It appears that I was incorrect about some of my password hashing times. I did not understand what rainbowcrack was doing when I calculated my times, they turned out to be much faster. Rainbowcrack uses some advanced algorithms and do not directly computer hashes, this article explains the concept in detail. Using Cain and Abel I am cracking passwords at approximately 4.4 million a second, or 200 nano seconds a password. This is approximately 1500 times faster than what I had thought my laptop was doing. With that I can crack a 8 character lower alpha-numeric password in about 7.5 days and a 9 in about 270 days. This is on a single mid range computer running Windows. I'm getting some very high end equipment in a few days and will do some benchmarks then as well. Hopefully I'll have the article updated by that time to be more accurate.

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