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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:09:50 +0000
From: "jay rubin" <cjride@...mail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: new at this cracker business




>From: "Frank Dittrich" <frank_dittrich@...mail.com>
>Reply-To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
>To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
>Subject: Re: [john-users] new at this cracker business
>Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:57:54 +0200
>
>jay rubin wrote:
>>Not sure what those other passwords were so I'm not sure I would want to 
>>change them.
>
>If I were in your position, I for sure would want to find out.
>

Thanks for the info.  I just sent out another email about my passwords not 
working.  I just went to my folder to get a listing of those other passwords 
and I can't get in.  I had made it private but I though as an administrator 
in my new account I could get in.  I thought wrong.


>
>>Are the precomputed rainbow tables  precomputed hashed passwords
>
>Not exactly, but close.
>(Search Google for "rainbow tables", and you should find
>more tan enough information.)
>
>>Why would my password be change?
>
>Your password wouldn't change just from submitting the hash.
>I just thought it would be a good idea to change the password
>after publishing the hash.
>(Especially if you find out that the website will provide
>your password within seconds, which is not that unlikely.)
>
>Frank
>
>
>
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