Instant Password Recovery

This is a simple proof of concept for a password-lookup service - inspired by LASEC - where a user can enter the hash of the password they 'forgot' and have our database lookup the matching password for the hash.

The database was built by prehashing all the words in a dictionary (lowercase) and storing the hash & password in the database. Currently MD5, SHA1 and LANMAN hashes are supported. The search below is just a very simple SQL query to locate the password, most results are found in less than 1 millisecond. There are currently 535,683 words using 48,164 KB ( 37,030 KB Data, 11,134 KB Indexes ).

Hash:
e.g. 1f3870be274f6c49b3e31a0c6728957f

Hash is: MD5   SHA1    LANMAN

445 searches completed, 64.04% were found. Last used 422 days, 6 hours, 14 minutes, 3 seconds ago.
Most frequently searched hash: 1f3870be274f6c49b3e31a0c6728957f "apple" (183 times)


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