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Google vs. Cuil as a Password cracker

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Well, Google is effectively an amazingly powerful data gatherer and indexing tool – check out this article on how Google can be used to check for previously indexed MD5 hashes:

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/11/16/google-as-a-password-cracker/

I thought I’d put Cuil to the test, to see whether they can offer the same “service”….given their bold claims about their number of indexed pages ;)

Step 1 – think of a password – for the sake of this test I’ll choose the weak password, gringo

Step 2 – hash the password (if you’re lazy, like me, this can be done here)

Step 3 – Google it!

Step 4 – Cuil it!

Cuils MD5 Search....

Written by Paul Morgan-Roach

July 31, 2008 at 2:54 pm

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