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Wildhoney · 09-20-2007, 11:38 AM

It's just a case of finding that nice comfort zone between the column length and being able to generate MD5 and SHA1 strings on-the-fly by prepending salts as well. To be fair a 32 bit string would be somewhat overkill, 5 is a nice number because it adds thousands of more possibilities to being able to generate the same string.

For instance, if spider is our common word and we want to generate the hash string for spider with salts prepended:

a - spider
A - spider
aa - spider
AA - spider
Aa - spider
aA - spider
etc...

As you can see, even 2 is going to give you a lot of possibilities.

09-20-2007, 11:38 AM	#3 (permalink)
Wildhoney La Vida es Sueño Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oldham Posts: 2,258 Thanks: 90	It's just a case of finding that nice comfort zone between the column length and being able to generate MD5 and SHA1 strings on-the-fly by prepending salts as well. To be fair a 32 bit string would be somewhat overkill, 5 is a nice number because it adds thousands of more possibilities to being able to generate the same string. For instance, if spider is our common word and we want to generate the hash string for spider with salts prepended: a - spider A - spider aa - spider AA - spider Aa - spider aA - spider etc... As you can see, even 2 is going to give you a lot of possibilities. __________________ The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.