Security case study: Hashes for popular router passwords

By William Entriken

1 minutes

The full list is here.

Base64 Plaintext
YWRtaW46cGFzc3dvcmQ= admin:password
YWRtaW46UGFzc3dvcmQ= admin:Password
YWRtaW46YWRtaW4= admin:admin
YWRtaW46 admin:

So what’s the case study result? Don’t trust security by obscurity. And always use salt with your hashes.

Comments

These are not even hashes, just plain base64, completely reversible...

Anonymous

Correct. Just posting the list to be googlable if anyone doesn't want to bother.

William Entriken

Please discuss this topic anywhere and let me know any great comments or media coverage I should link here.