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Haha, brand new company with MD5 password hashes. Maybe they oughta consult about securities with their/other AIs more often. Hopefully, nobody did anything naughty on the site.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Iirc rainbow tables are currently useless due to ~~good seasoning~~ salt.

Though password crackers can take a known pattern to drastically increase speed it would still have to do the whole calculation for every password.