On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 11:32, Doug McNaught wrote:
> "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >
> > > It is probably worth trying to spend some time trying to find a finite
> > > set of passwords that are guarenteed to be generators for all possible
> > > MD5 hashes (or at least those than can possibly occur), so that you can
> > > finish the computation in finite time.
> >
> > If I rememberate correctificantly, it would take more storage than all the
> > atoms in the universe to store all the possible md5 sigs. Or somthing
> > similarly large. But if it's an excuse to buy a massive storage array,
> > I'm all for it. :-)
>
> I think Bruno was making a funny... :)
But any true geek will look for *any* excuse to buy more hardware.
Also, if I remember properly, the estimates are that there are 10^70
atoms in the known Universe. That equates to ~2^233.
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