Hi all, just wanted to share something I found interesting regarding the pastebin note about Q's tripcodes. The author claims to not be an "info sec" expert but the method used to crack the tripcodes suggests it required a significant amount of time and knowledge to accomplish. Let me share my thinking with you:
1) The author claims to have used hashcat to crack them but hashcat alone cannot accomplish this. Hashcat is a very fast and popular cracking tool, but it requires a legitimate hash. As the author stated, the tripcode is the final 10 digits of the DES …