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Christian Stottmeister is a technical projectmanager responsible for large website setups with a personal interest in security, web technology and projectmanagement issues. Contact information and more details about Stotti can be found here.
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- @techfreaks Hi Rohit, it's a pity that you don't approve my comment. Fear the competition? ;) Twitter 21 hours ago
- Welcome to Twitter, @j2hlive :) Twitter 22 hours ago
- @techfreaks I wonder when you will approve my comment to http://is.gd/99WBG ... #security #hacking Twitter 2010/03/10
- Commented it! RT @t3rob: New blog post: Managing a big project http://bit.ly/a3Ea0y #TYPO3 #FLOW3 Twitter 2010/03/10
- @amcgowanca @nimbleassistant Wordpress passwords are NOT hashed using MD5. See http://bit.ly/BbmHB to generate a new pass. Twitter 2010/03/09
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New Wordpress password hasher tool
This time just a quick post as I am in a hurry. Ever wondered how to change your Wordpress password in case you have forgotten it? In early versions Wordpress used the MD5 hashing algorithm to “encrypt” the passwords of a user. Nowadays Wordpress uses the Portable PHP password hashing framework (PHPASS) instead of MD5 [...]
Posted in hands off! this is my stuff, security & privacy Also tagged hashsum, md5, password, wordpress 9 Comments
How to crack MD5 passwords with John the Ripper – a live example exploiting TYPO3
Earlier I told you how to crack MD5 passwords in general. This article tells how to get the passwords out of a TYPO3 installation, which are MD5-hashed, and crack them using John the Ripper.
Preparations step 1: lurk the data!
Okay, assuming that you’re an TYPO3 administrator that wants to check the password strength of your backend [...]
MD5 and SHA1 encoder plugins for major browsers
As already announced at the site itself, the MD5 and SHA1 encoders at mainframe8 support the use of custom browser search engines for quite a while now. This means you can MD5/SHA1 encode strings directly from the browser!
Technical background
We don’t rely on the old Sherlock standard but used the up-to-date OpenSearch definition. Sherlock has been [...]
Posted in hands off! this is my stuff, my beloved code, world wide webtech Also tagged encoding, mainframe8, md5 Leave a comment
List of cracked MD5 passwords
This article provides a list to publicly available rainbow tables of MD5 hashsums and their plaintext counterparts.
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