Distributed Hash Cracker

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SummaryA vulnerability found in MD4 permits short passwords to be cracked even faster.

Description *While studying the MD4 hash algorithm in an attempt to increase MD4 and NTLM performance, I discovered an interesting vulnerability which will permit cracking of short passwords to run up to 15% faster. The attack has not, as of this writing, been implemented in the cracker. A brief paper describing the attack can be found at "http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~zonena/papers/md4_v2.pdf":http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~zonena/papers/md4_v2.pdf.