Timeline for Is my understanding of SHA1 correct?
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| Oct 17, 2016 at 10:04 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Oct 14, 2016 at 13:31 | comment | added | Anders | @JᴀʏMᴇᴇ Glad it helped. Yes, they do it because they have seen that particular string before. Common passwords and natural language words (or even sentences) are a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the whole space of hashes. | |
| Oct 14, 2016 at 13:29 | comment | added | user81147 | Excellent answer, and some fascinating facts to go with it! Thank you very much. I'm assuming, then, that sites that successfully disclose the raw text behind and SHA1 value do so simply because they've seen that string before? e.g.: sha1.gromweb.com Thanks again, great reply. | |
| Oct 14, 2016 at 9:40 | history | answered | Anders | CC BY-SA 3.0 |