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Sophisticated Security
Personal blog · pxdojo.netsecurityai
Sophisticated Security is a personal blog at pxdojo.net about security and ai. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “What I learned from cracking 4000 Ashley Madison passwords”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's password-cracking experiment, which reports a GPU hash rate and how few accounts were cracked in five days. Commenters cite it when discussing salts and weak passwords.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
crypto, infosec, bitcoin, artificial intelligence, unapologetic futurology
Most-linked posts?
- What I learned from cracking 4000 Ashley Madison passwords3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-25
What Hacker News says?
> would this have any use or decrease the security of those user accounts at all Yes: http://www.pxdojo.net/2015/08/what-i-learned-from-cracking-4... Now, this assumes typical storage, that "leaking the password column" means leaking hashed password+salt. Without the salt, things would go slower - but it's sort of an artificial constraint - what you're talking about, is leaking the stuff the server needs to have to…
Comment linking /2015/08/what-i-learned-from-cracking-4000.html
on “Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked and leaked”Submitted Bitcoin Private Key Necromancy as a story · 199 points
HN discussionA weak password is a weak password no matter how good the hashing is. I think that you're referring to this bit from last year: http://www.pxdojo.net/2015/08/what-i-learned-from-cracking-4... The author of this piece was doing about 156 hashes per second and after just over five days, he had only gone through and cracked 4,000 account passwords--we're talking 0.0001% of Ashley Madison's supposed userbase here. To ru…
Comment linking /2015/08/what-i-learned-from-cracking-4000.html
on “Introduction to GPU Password Cracking: Owning the LinkedIn Password Dump”Submitted What I learned from cracking 4000 Ashley Madison passwords as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Enslaved Oracle, and the Future of Superintelligence as a story · 4 points
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