2012-11-24, 02:40 AM
Some people's uses ridiculously long password for MS. MS was released in 2005 and the password hash of the day were MD5, guessing from how proactive Nexon is, MD5 is 90% certain still in use by Nexon today.
For those that thinks the longer the password the better is wrong! You have to consider the hash function's "resolution" to not to exceed it.
MD5 is 128 bits hash function (but its some what flaw), when passwords consist of upper, lower letters, numbers and symbols (total of 95 different values) at around ~19.48 chars you will max out the 128 bit, any longer will cause your password to end up with the same hash (collision) as another password (could possibly be weaker).
For those that thinks the longer the password the better is wrong! You have to consider the hash function's "resolution" to not to exceed it.
MD5 is 128 bits hash function (but its some what flaw), when passwords consist of upper, lower letters, numbers and symbols (total of 95 different values) at around ~19.48 chars you will max out the 128 bit, any longer will cause your password to end up with the same hash (collision) as another password (could possibly be weaker).