[ale] unsalted hashes of 6 million linkedin passwords published on the internet

[Michael Campbell]

I am very happy with keepass and keepassx for linux for password
management. They both read the same database and have some fun keybinds to
automatically populate web forms and such.
On Jun 7, 2012 4:37 PM, "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> On 6/7/2012 3:47 PM, Stephen Haywood wrote:
> >> Unsalted and unseeded.  If the hashing had been seeded, the brute
> >> forcing would be impossible without the private seed.
> >>
> > I understand what you mean by unsalted but explain unseeded in terms
> > of a SHA1 hash. My understanding is the file contained about 6.5
> > million unique password hashes, of which about 3.5 million were
> > cracked before the list was made public. Last I heard about 1.5
> > million had be cracked and analyzed by Stefan Venken (@StefanVenken).
> > I believe the folks at KoreLogic have cracked over 3 million of them.
> >
> Oh horsefeathers!  (Other expletives deleted)  I found the hash of my
> password in the database.  I've already changed it on Linkedin, but I
> use that password elsewhere too.  It will take me days to track down
> MOST of the places down and change it.  I'm not even sure I know all the
> places I've used it.  May have to start using LastPass or something.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
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