Some of the projects that use MD5 as the default method for storing user passwords include WordPress, osCommerce, SuiteCRM, miniBB, SugarCRM, CMS Made Simple, MantisBT, Phorum, Observium, and X3cms.

Can you crack a Cisco IOS MD5 password hash? [I'm in beautiful Ottawa this week. All the locals kept telling me how beautiful it was today, since it was nearly Spring like with temps almost at 0 ...

Cambridge University researcher Steven Murdoch successfully used Google to help crack a password used by an attacker who had hacked into his blog a few weeks ago and created a user account. After he ...

Am I wrong in that? Not especially, no. Proper password handling assumes that the only secret is the password -- not the process used to hash it. User-specific salts do help quite a bit, but that's ...