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jayfuerstenberg
on Sept 20, 2012
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Kaspersky researcher cracks Flame malware password
The article neglects to mention what is perhaps the most important element of this story: the hashing algorithm used.
Cracking a hashed algorithm computed in SHA-512 or even BCrypt is a different story from MD5.
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Cracking a hashed algorithm computed in SHA-512 or even BCrypt is a different story from MD5.