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Re:Hashcat v6.2.6 benchmark on the Nvidia RTX 4090 by cornylisti on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:40AM (#35784848)
md5 was never supposed to even be used for passwords, it was designed to produce really fast checksums for files, a very bad property for a password hashing algorithm
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Re:Hashcat v6.2.6 benchmark on the Nvidia RTX 4090 by brokenmachine on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:39PM (#35795754)
Sure.

I wonder how many sites are still using md5...

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