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RE: password cracking: one char at a time.

Subject: RE: password cracking: one char at a time.
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:14:06 +0530
 see below .

I was wondering if is at all possible to discover a password one
char at a time.

<niped> 

If the hash is of good cryptographic level, if someone steals
the hashes he won't get an easily time finding collisions.

And to avoid two users to have the same hash if they use
the same password, salt bits are used (that's what Unix does).
 


What are salt bits?

Salty ! Here they are random numbers to padded and encrypted with 
actual password to make brute forcing difficult


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