Challenge "Cracking SHA1-Hashed Passwords" ¶
By: admin on April 4, 2011, 9:38 p.m.
Password-based authentication means that a user sends a plaintext password to a server, and the server calculates the hash value of the received password and compares it with a stored hash value. Goal of this challenge is to reveal the plaintext password given its SHA1 hash value. There is some information known about the original password.
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