BozoCrack is a depressingly effective MD5 password hash cracker with almost zero CPU/GPU load. Instead of rainbow tables, dictionaries, or brute force, BozoCrack simply finds the plaintext password. Specifically, it googles the MD5 hash and hopes the plaintext appears somewhere on the first page of results.

It works way better than it ever should.

juuso / BozoCrack - Github

Clever idea to show just how vulnerable simple encryptions (those without a salt) can be (even when thinking about something like MD5).

  1. marksbirch said: Just wait till you see easy hacks for breaking salted passwords…
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