A system administrator pulled the following password hashes from a web application. Based on these password hashes, what do you know?

alice:26ab0db90d72e28ad0ba1e22ee510510
barry:b026324c6904b2a9cb4b88d6d61c81d1
becky:6d7fce9fee471194aa8b5b6e47267f03
cindy:869c5758c412a4b16c682c2f983a804f
peter:869c5758c412a4b16c682c2f983a804f
leann:869c5758c412a4b16c682c6af517398f
sarah:26ab0db93c9c6e1b9b6252c8395efdc1
vivek:31d30eea8d0968d6458e0ad0027c9f80

Question

A system administrator pulled the following password hashes from a web application. Based on these password hashes, what do you know? 
 
 alice:26ab0db90d72e28ad0ba1e22ee510510 
 barry:b026324c6904b2a9cb4b88d6d61c81d1 
 becky:6d7fce9fee471194aa8b5b6e47267f03 
 cindy:869c5758c412a4b16c682c2f983a804f 
 peter:869c5758c412a4b16c682c2f983a804f 
 leann:869c5758c412a4b16c682c6af517398f 
 sarah:26ab0db93c9c6e1b9b6252c8395efdc1 
 vivek:31d30eea8d0968d6458e0ad0027c9f80

Accepted Answer

Cindy and Peter have identical passwords.

Answer

Each hash value was calculated using a different salt value.

Answer

Peter and Leann have passwords that are similar.

Answer

The passwords were hashed with the HMAC-MD5 algorithm.

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