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Cracking a 16-digit hash (MD5) - apzbot - 09-29-2025
Hello,
Is it possible to crack a hash using a mask consisting of 16 digits, and if so, how long will this operation take?
Might have to use rainbow tables?
RE: Cracking a 16-digit hash (MD5) - buka - 09-29-2025
Depends on the hash type.
I don't think there exist any rainbow tables for 16-character passwords.
RE: Cracking a 16-digit hash (MD5) - nick8606 - 09-29-2025
(Yesterday, 04:51 AM)apzbot Wrote: Is it possible to crack a hash using a mask consisting of 16 digits, and if so, how long will this operation take?
Hash type is MD5 (as mentioned in title) and passwords consists of 16 decimal digits, right?
Number of possible passwords will be 10^16. You can find a lot of benchmarks on this forum. Let's use this topic as an example. Speed for MD5 is 68*(10^9) pwd/sec. Therefore, estimated time will be ~ 147'000 seconds (approx. 41 hours).
Next time you can make calculations by yourself.