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Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? [message #445030 is a reply to message #444761]

Sat, 19 March 2011 16:54

Olaf van der Spek
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danpaul88 wrote on Wed, 09 March 2011 15:14

Except a renegade serial is 20 digits and who said it was an MD5 hash? For all we know it could be SHA-1, or double MD5 or even a combination of different hashes ran one after the other.

Also, in order to brute force something you need a method to programatically determine if the input which produced the required hash was ACTUALLY the original input. Since multiple inputs produced the same hash you can easily wind up 'brute forcing' completely the wrong value unless you have some way to validate the result.

It's 22 digits of which 4 can be calculated. That's 10^18 or about 2^60 combinations.
Finding out the used hash algorithm itself isn't the hard part.

60 bits might be a bit too much for existing rainbow based attacks.

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		how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: Distrbd21 on Wed, 02 March 2011 02:12
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: reborn on Wed, 02 March 2011 02:36
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: danpaul88 on Wed, 02 March 2011 06:32
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: halo2pac on Sat, 05 March 2011 22:45
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: Gen_Blacky on Sun, 06 March 2011 21:30
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: saberhawk on Sun, 06 March 2011 21:56
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: danpaul88 on Mon, 07 March 2011 11:15
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: halo2pac on Tue, 08 March 2011 18:36
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: danpaul88 on Wed, 09 March 2011 07:14
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: Olaf van der Spek on Sat, 19 March 2011 16:54
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: Jerad2142 on Thu, 11 August 2011 11:32
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: danpaul88 on Fri, 12 August 2011 01:50
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: halo2pac on Tue, 16 August 2011 20:25
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: danpaul88 on Wed, 17 August 2011 01:07
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: Sladewill on Wed, 09 March 2011 15:17
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: Gen_Blacky on Tue, 16 August 2011 20:53
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: reborn on Wed, 17 August 2011 02:11

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