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Is MD5 secure?
MD5 hashes are no longer considered cryptographically secure methods and should not be used for cryptographic authentication, according to IETF.
What is encryption salt?
In cryptography, a salt is random data that is used as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. A new salt is randomly generated for each password.
Does Ntlm use salt?
The NTLM protocol uses one or both of two hashed password values, both of which are also stored on the server (or domain controller), and which through a lack of salting are password equivalent, meaning that if you grab the hash value from the server, you can authenticate without knowing the actual password.
What is the purpose of salting passwords?
A cryptographic salt is made up of random bits added to each password instance before its hashing. Salts create unique passwords even in the instance of two users choosing the same passwords. Salts help us mitigate hash table attacks by forcing attackers to re-compute them using the salts for each user.
Which is more secure MD5 or salt for passwords?
A password hashed using MD5 and salt is, for all practical purposes, just as secure as if it were hashed with SHA256 and salt. Nevertheless, it is a good idea to use a more secure hash function like SHA256, SHA512, RipeMD, or WHIRLPOOL if possible.
What do you need to know about salted MD5?
What people call “salted MD5” or “salted SHA-1” are in fact new cryptographic construction, assembling some encoding convention (to transform the password into a sequence of bits) and a salt value (another sequence of characters or bits) into one (or a few) invocations of the hash function.
What’s the MD5 salt for Welcome, monkey?
Lets say the attacker takes the most used 100 passwords like welcome,monkey with md5 values 40be4e59b9a2a2b5dffb918c0e86b3d7,d0763edaa9d9bd2a9516280e9044d885 respectively. He need to brute force password as well as salt in md5 (md5 (password).salt) using the list welcome,monkey .
Is it safe to use a short password on MD5?
If your password is inside (and there is a good chance if you have a “short” password), your accounts are not safe at all. As for the brute force method, the only way to be safe is to use a long random password with special characters.