Re: My my, how time flies ...... it's been about "1 hour"
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Re: My my, how time flies ...... it's been about "1 hour"

From: \ <jonez@norcom.ca>
Date: Mon Sep 05 2005 - 21:36:12 CEST

arachnidster@gmail.com wrote:
> "- Prof. Jonez©" wrote:
> > So put up or shut up. Reverse it. It's been a few THOUSAND hours
> > now, surely you aren't that incompetent, are you? ... or are you
> > simply a lying jackass?
>
> Let's look at the original statement again:
> > Assuming a common passphrase length of around 20 characters, and
> > assuming it is English, this will have 20-30 bits of entropy,
> MD5 > will be enough to uniquely identify each of these, and MD5
> can be > effectively reversed under these circumstances in under
> 1 hour.
>
> I can't help noticing that nobody has actually provided a sample MD5
> hash with a preimage matching those requirements (around 20
> characters,
> in English). How is anyone supposed to 'effectively reverse' it when
> there's no example to reverse?

The pompous blowhard Joe Asswood can "effectively reverse" anything,
simply by huffing and puffing and declaring it so. His traveling troop
of sycophants and crypto-concubines will all join in the chorus ...
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:52:42 2005