[MLUG] Yet Another Amazing Use of Google

[Mike Miller]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Russell Horn wrote:

> Another amazing use of google is to find this page:
>
> http://nz.md5.crysm.net/find?md5=1e9c32b7ba6fefa76773d5c79bcdaad0


Interesting.  I like their advice:


http://nz.md5.crysm.net/about

To make your product more secure we recommend you take the following 
steps:

     * Use a longer salt. eg: ``password:saltsaltsaltsalt''. As we only 
cover the american-english dictionary and combinations up to four letters 
long, long plain texts will not be found in the database.

     * MD5 twice. A sample formula: MD5(MD5(password+salt)+password). This 
is much stronger as two MD5s must be looked up, again decreasing the 
chances it is in the database.


Mike