Of course it's easy to understand that in most cases it will not be possible due to the amount of the truncated data in the hash cycle, for example 100 Megabyte in and 32 Bytes out in this case it would certainly be impossible to rediscover the 100 Megabytes from the given 32 Byte hash output.
you should learn to read the entire comments not just one word from it. there is a "condition" before "impossible".
Of course i did read the post otherwise i would not be posting here so here is the part i was referring to:
- length of the password (eg. 6 character, 8, 12, 20?)
- type of characters used (upper case, lower case, mix of both, symbols, which symbols if any, numbers)
not knowing these things simply means it is impossible
So here we are talking about a simple password and not a 100 Megabyte file.
A password can many times be shorter then 32 Bytes and in such case the amount of truncated data would be far less then in the 100 Megabyte case.
I have successfully rediscovered many passwords without knowing any of the above parameters.
The most important factors in such case are as always hash rate and the time spent searching.
I did not do this at home and i rented the hardware from a server company.
I just want to say that given enough time and hash power, it's not impossible, in stead it is inevitable that you will rediscover the password.
There is a very big difference between impossible and inevitable.
Impossible is never going to happen while inevitable is guaranteed to happen.
i would love to see the case where one breaks an encryption that used a randomly generated password without even knowing how long the password was.
please post links!
Why do so many people think that there is a url for everything.
I do not keep a blog of my activities.
And i don't want to because the process is simple anyone can set it up and try for themselves.
There are many tools available that can help but i always recommend writing your own from scratch.
In any case OP seems to have vanished (as expected)
