{"id":12067,"date":"2007-11-26T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T18:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/11\/26\/hash.html"},"modified":"2007-11-26T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T18:25:58","slug":"hash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/hash.html","title":{"rendered":"Hash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, boy, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2007\/11\/23\/forgotten_your_password_google_can_find_it_for_you_unfortunately.html\" target=\"_blank\">use Google to decrypt MD5-encoded passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Um &#8230; yippee?<\/p>\n<p>It only actually works on dictionary-entry passwords (which are big no-no&#8217;s anyway).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, boy, you can use Google to decrypt MD5-encoded passwords. Um &#8230; yippee? 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