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asharp on Nov 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: I wrote BozoCrack to show why plain MD5 is a horri...

I greatly doubt that it is faster to compute on the fly then to use a rainbow table.

nobody3141592 on Nov 8, 2011 [–]

I think the record is just under 1Billion hashes/sec on a couple of NVidia Tesla cards linked by SLI.

You need a fairly expensive SAN to pull 1Billion MD5 hashes/second just from the raw disk - nevermind the DB lookup.

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