note 104125 deleted from function.md5 by tularis
| From: | tularis@php.net | Date: | Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:47:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 104125 deleted from function.md5 by tularis | ||
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Note Submitter: eivindorama at gmail dot com
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No, there's no "complete rainbow table" for md5 in existence. That would be absurd.
md5 is a 16-byte hash, so there's 2^(16*8) possibilities, or
340282366920938463463374607431768211456 even if every one was just 16 bytes, that'd be
8847341539944400050047739793 terabytes worth of data, much more than the total storage humanity
ownes.
There's other problems with md5, but this isn't one of them.