Re: Facebook to be hacked
"but for the sake of time"
I'm no ace hacker, and almost anyone can crack that hash if they just search for a little bit online.
If I continue to let the program run, eventually the password will be found. I just want to know some general information (most importantly length) to save time. If the password is 40 characters long, I'm not going to be alive by the time my computer finds it through bruteforcing.
If it's an average length password, (say 8-12 characters) it won't take nearly as long, but depending on the charset it could still take a month or more and by the time I do find it, this thread will likely be gone from memory, and it'd be irrelevant for me to post the plain text of the hash.
If I were trying to dehash a password that I wanted ASAP, I would go back to google and go searching for a program that would crack hashes utilizing my GPU, rather than my CPU. GPU I can generate upwards of 2bil pass's a minute, which is about 20x faster than what my CPU is outputting right now. It would take 36 hours on my GPU to do what the CPU will in a month. Problem being, my computer becomes next to unusable during that time.
So, I'm still running a dictionary attack on the hash. And have been for several days. If the dictionary attack fails, that will probably be enough time for people to forget about this thread and for me to give up.
If I get a "hint", I can still crack the hash, and do so in a much more timely manner.
"but for the sake of time"
I'm no ace hacker, and almost anyone can crack that hash if they just search for a little bit online.
If I continue to let the program run, eventually the password will be found. I just want to know some general information (most importantly length) to save time. If the password is 40 characters long, I'm not going to be alive by the time my computer finds it through bruteforcing.
If it's an average length password, (say 8-12 characters) it won't take nearly as long, but depending on the charset it could still take a month or more and by the time I do find it, this thread will likely be gone from memory, and it'd be irrelevant for me to post the plain text of the hash.
If I were trying to dehash a password that I wanted ASAP, I would go back to google and go searching for a program that would crack hashes utilizing my GPU, rather than my CPU. GPU I can generate upwards of 2bil pass's a minute, which is about 20x faster than what my CPU is outputting right now. It would take 36 hours on my GPU to do what the CPU will in a month. Problem being, my computer becomes next to unusable during that time.
So, I'm still running a dictionary attack on the hash. And have been for several days. If the dictionary attack fails, that will probably be enough time for people to forget about this thread and for me to give up.
If I get a "hint", I can still crack the hash, and do so in a much more timely manner.
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