By finding matches between this list and the hashes from the stolen passwords, hackers can figure out your true password - letting them log into your favorite websites. In this context, cracking means making a list of all combinations of characters on your keyboard and then hashing them. Hackers solve this problem by cracking the passwords instead. So how do hackers who steal hashes from websites ultimately end up with a list of real life passwords? This one-way approach for hashing functions is by design. A hash digest like 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 can’t be reverse computed to produce the word “password” that was used to make it. For this reason, the passwords you use on websites are stored in servers as hashes instead of in plain text like “password” so that if someone views them, in theory they won’t know the actual password. Now if you hash the word “password” using MD5 hashing software, you’ll also get 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99! We both secretly know the word “password” is our secret code, but anyone else watching us just sees 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99. In other words, if I hash the word “password” using MD5 hashing software, the output hash is 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99. In the context of passwords, a “hash” is a scrambled version of text that is reproducible if you know what hash software was used. Two years later – quite a long period of time in processing power improvement terms – we’re long overdue for an update.įirst, let’s get some key terms out of the way. The data was based on how long it would take a consumer-budget hacker to crack your password hash using a desktop computer with a top-tier graphics card. It showed the relative strength of a password against a brute force cracking attempt, based on the password’s length and complexity. In 2020, we shared a colorful table that took the internet by storm. So we’ll walk you through our data, our assumptions, and oh, you’re going to see a LOT of variations of the password table above! “So how'd you make the table"?” While the data fits nicely into the table above, things aren’t as as simple as it shows.
So it was about time we not only updated it for 2022 but we wanted to walk you through our methodology. It’s been two years since we first shared our (now famous) password table.
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