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    June 29, 2011, 12:03:23 AM
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    And the uncracked password list that was released had the salts along with each password, so being 'salted' or 'unsalted' shouldn't matter...
    Yes, it matters.  A lot.  Salted means you have to crack each password individually.  You have to run through the entire list of candidates (until a match) for each and every salted password (given unique salts).  With unsalted passwords you can run through the wordlist once, and get all matching passwords with a single MD5 run for each word in your wordlist.  It doesn't matter for one single password, but for 60000 salting means 60000 times more work.  And salting renders rainbow tables useless, because you'd have to build one rainbow table for each possible salt.
    They solved one simple md5 pass, and then used the given salts to get any password instantly.  Or am I not understanding how this works....
    You do not understand it at all.  Read kjj's post for a more detailed explanation of how the salting works.

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