Password Cracking
How passwords are stored on servers? Passwords are stored on databases by hashing them alone or after appending them with random values. Hashing is a one-way function that converts a given string of characters into another value. A strong hashing algorithm has to be quick, deterministic, and irreversible. In this blog, we explore how a hashed password can be cracked. Hashing Algorithms Hashing algorithms are mathematical functions that take an input (often a string of characters, such as a password) and produce a fixed-size string of characters, known as a hash value or hash code. These algorithms are designed to be one-way functions, meaning that while it’s easy to compute the hash value from the input (password), it’s computationally infeasible to reverse the process and obtain the original input from the hash value. Some common hashing Algorithms are: ...