"scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 
> > It is probably worth trying to spend some time trying to find a finite
> > set of passwords that are guarenteed to be generators for all possible
> > MD5 hashes (or at least those than can possibly occur), so that you can
> > finish the computation in finite time.
> 
> If I rememberate correctificantly, it would take more storage than all the 
> atoms in the universe to store all the possible md5 sigs.  Or somthing 
> similarly large.  But if it's an excuse to buy a massive storage array, 
> I'm all for it.  :-)

I think Bruno was making a funny...  :)

-Doug

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