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Old 02-03-2016, 08:02 AM  
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Originally Posted by ruff View Post
A whole lot of drama for exactly what now? This is the kind of crap you get when you have so many surfers in a webmaster forum.
On the contrary actually.

Crack has stated that they know how long the passwords are (which means they either are storing passwords as plain text in their database, or they have a database schema with a huge security hole). Either way it means their form of password storage is compromised.

They've also now said they have a "de-cryption" method which is complete horse shit. If they're storing passwords with a hash method there's no way to de-crypt them. You can figure out what a password is from the hashed version - but it isn't de-cryption - it's a dedicated "guessing machine" that runs the billions of combinations through the hash function until it finds the match. That's not something they'd have the capacity for.
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