Understanding Password Hashing How to Identify Password Hashes

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This web application security video covering password hashing will walk you through how to identify password hashes. • This video situated around web application security will also mention the internal functionalities of a web application firewall (WAF) appliance, but let's take it slow... • To start with, password hashing is something that's of interest to every security researcher. Some of password hashes are less complex to crack, while some of them take more effort. • Here's how to identify a password hash that's in use by an application. • First off, keep in mind that password hashes that contain password hashing and salting are formatted like hash colon salt and not the other way around. • Password hashes can have multiple types, but if they come with password hashing and salting, a password salt will always be appended to the password hash after a colon. • The entire purpose of salting passwords is to make huge values of them harder to crack for an attacker. • Identifying password hashes: • 1) To identify an MD5 password hash, look at the length of the password hash and whether it's a 32-character hexadecimal output. If it is, it's most likely a password hash of the MD5 type. • 2) To identify SHA1 password hashes, look at the length of the password hash. Such a password hashing functionality will usually look just like MD5 hashes, but be a little longer and won't contain salts. • 3) To identify vBulletin password hashing, look at the salt of the password hash. vBulletin 3 will usually have a 3-character salt that can contain spaces. vBulletin 4 and above can have a 30-character salt. • 4) To identify password hashes from the forum software MyBB and IPBoard, look at the salt of the password hash. MyBB password hashing will always have an 8-character salt, while IPBoard will have 5 characters. • 5) Finally, to identify hashes from SMF or Simple Machine Forums, look at the salt of the password hash. In many cases, it will be the username of the user. The password hash can also have a salt in the form of 4 characters and a username after it. • Subscribe for more videos on password hashing, and until next time. • All information in this video is for educational purposes only. You mustn’t use any information provided in this video to cause harm to anyone or anything. Only you are responsible for your actions. • Music: • Ascend (sped up) by Alex-Productions: / alexproductionsmusic • Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 • Free Download / Stream: https://tinyurl.com/yc3txf9e • Music promoted by Audio Library https://tinyurl.com/mr3dp4zk • #password #security #hacker #coding #programming #web

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