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Originally Posted by Isolated Technically, Whirlpool has yet to be cracked, so he was right with his statement, unless you're talking about the rest.

Most of modern hash algorithms have yet to be cracked, though most of them are designed and mathematically proven to be 100% irreversible. But thats no guarantee for security anymore.

Imagine something like an enormous database that contains the hash values and their source string, for pretty much every possible combination of characters. Now you just search for the hash value you want to "crack", and youll end up with the original, unhashed string, without having to calculate the billions and trillions of hashs on your own computer.

Thats no fiction but is easily available. Its called "Rainbow table", and they exist for every hash method with an open algorithm - including whirlpool. Using unsalted hashs isnt any better than using plaintext, no matter what hashing method you use. Properly salted MD5 owns unsalted Whirlpool by far.