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Hash hacking

1.2k views · started by itzboogey ·
#1
Hash hacking
Does that shit still work for Gaia?
i remember doing that years ago...
#2
No, because there's no way to get the hash of the account unless you have the user's password or access to the database. And hash 'hacking' was just cracking the hash and cracking is generally unreliable, so it's ineffective anyway.
#3
How did you guys grab all of the users' hashes? That must have been one insanely insecure database.
#4
Derp thanks.
#5
How did you guys grab all of the users' hashes? That must have been one insanely insecure database.


Exploitz obviously
#6
damn bro u a hash hacker? me 2!
#7
Exploitz obviously


Well I can't imagine that the servers were vulnerable for very long, if practically everyone seems to be decrypting hashes.
#8
Ones does not simply "decrypt" (MD5) hashes. It doesn't work like that. Unless you can magically reverse engineer the hash algorithm. In which case the integrity of the algorithm sucks or you're some super genius hacker.

You typically crack the hashes - usually through rainbow tables or generic database look-ups (which was the main way it was done on Gaia back then).
#9
2pac wrote:
damn bro u a hash hacker? me 2!


omg bro so am i. wanna be hash haxor buddies?!?!??!111@#

Wanna join 2 Flare???? you can be our official leader!
#10
Ones does not simply "decrypt" (MD5) hashes. It doesn't work like that. Unless you can magically reverse engineer the hash algorithm. In which case the integrity of the algorithm sucks or you're some super genius hacker.

You typically crack the hashes - usually through rainbow tables or generic database look-ups (which was the main way it was done on Gaia back then).


Well normally you can just decrypt MD5s unless they're salted or otherwise.
#11
Well normally you can just decrypt MD5s unless they're salted or otherwise.


No, the purpose of a salt is to further prevent hash cracking. You can't decrypt MD5 because it isn't an encryption algorithm like RC4. It's hashing.

Encryption and hashing are two different things.
#12
omg bro so am i. wanna be hash haxor buddies?!?!??!111@#

Wanna join 2 Flare???? you can be our official leader!


hellz yeah i already got cain and abel fired up
#13
2pac wrote:
hellz yeah i already got cain and abel fired up


//opens Cain and Abel

wow, I completely forgot that Cain actually had hash cracking tools on it o-o
#14
actually you can decrypt md5 hash, I wouldn't have asked if the shit still worked if you couldn't.
#15
itzboogey wrote:
actually you can decrypt md5 hash, I wouldn't have asked if the shit still worked if you couldn't.


You don't decrypt the hash. Decrypting it would take no effort and would be a completely unsecure security mechanism.

What people do is crack them. Difference between the two is decrypting is simply systematically converting the cipher back to the original format. Hashes generally aren't reversed and instead are cross-referenced with the account so plain-text isn't exposed (and other security related purposes) as that would be a security fallacy.

See Encryption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Hash function - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Again you're referring to hash cracking. Which sometimes involves minimal effort. Example being is this open source proof of concept project on Github. https://github.com/juuso/BozoCrack

#16
I always thought of md5's like words in a dictionary, every md5 has its own definition that someone figured out.
#17
Omlett wrote:
I always thought of md5's like words in a dictionary, every md5 has its own definition that someone figured out.


Haha, this analogy is partially true. Only not every MD5 has a definition that could be figured out (well, technically, in theory any hash can be figured out. But in some cases [i.e. salted hashes] it could take up to forever to crack the hash).

That's what makes cracking unreliable. But there's two sides to every coin - it's also at the same time sometimes very effective. It all depends on factors like the scenario/horsepower available to you/tools/etc.
#18
Do they still have the program where you can look through emails and find ones connected to gaia, hack the email and then reset their gaia pass?

I KNOW that method used to work, guarantee it is now obsolete.
#19
It's a lot more complicated than that I just woke up so I sound dumb.
:p
#20
Do they still have the program where you can look through emails and find ones connected to gaia, hack the email and then reset their gaia pass?

I KNOW that method used to work, guarantee it is now obsolete.


It's obsolete now for the most part. I happen to have a program I made a couple months back that still roughly supports Yahoo emails, but there is no 100% solid method.

And it's even more obsolete because there isn't any way to get emails in the first place anymore.
#21
Yeah, it would work if a yahoo email is attained? o:
It's obsolete now for the most part. I happen to have a program I made a couple months back that still roughly supports Yahoo emails, but there is no 100% solid method.

And it's even more obsolete because there isn't any way to get emails in the first place anymore.
#22
It's obsolete now for the most part. I happen to have a program I made a couple months back that still roughly supports Yahoo emails, but there is no 100% solid method.

And it's even more obsolete because there isn't any way to get emails in the first place anymore.


Thanks for inspiring me, I might throw something together that checks for taken emails, and can give you a linked username haha. And yes, I have a method to find an email addresses account.
#23
Yeah, it would work if a yahoo email is attained? o:


What do you mean.
#24
Inspiration is beautiful.

Thanks for inspiring me, I might throw something together that checks for taken emails, and can give you a linked username haha. And yes, I have a method to find an email addresses account.
#25
If I get a yahoo email connected to a wealthy gaiaonline account I can hack the email and request to reset the gaiaonline account's password, attain the password, change the yahoo email addresses password, login to the gaiaonline account?
What do you mean.