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Define a True Geek
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jack, that's my credit card number! Don't post that! :-)
Hashing algorithms like MD5 are supposed to be one way only, so you can't decode them. However, I have heard that there are attacks for MD5 and it is considered by some to be partially insecure. So, if you can read it, you are a cracker. Or a security analyst. How do you crack it?
Oh, and since Lighthouse brought it up, WEP is really, really insecure so never use it unless you have no choice. These days if you forget a WEP password, it's faster to crack it than reset it.
You can't exactly "crack" an MD5, but there are a ton of websites building rainbow tables of computed md5 hashes, so these days you can look up almost any md5 hash online on a dozen sites like this one:
Rainbow tables? Oh, come on. Any true geek worth his salt can work around that. (get it?) ¡Gracias, Señor Geek!
Lighthouse, what is the territory where you have to use WEP? BTW, we've hijacked your thread. Mwahaha!
I guess there really is no uncrackable crypto, only crypto that hasn't been cracked yet.
here you can see my message here http://www.md5oogle.com/
edit: now i just noticed that the geek already posted the same site
That could have been "The Purple People Eater"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVbGnspgy_8
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