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raymor · 04-30-2005, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by nofx

you can still always bruteforce

Note that with good passwords it would have to be a true
brute force attack and not the far more common and
much easier dictionary attack. With reasonably long passwords
and MD5 a brute force attack would take a very long time.
It'd be possible to do, but why bother when it just takes a
few minutes to rip the whole password file of some other site?
Also Strongbox will prevent a web based brute attack.
To even attempt a brute force attack they first have to get the
password list.