Ask you friend if he's got any of the following hashes in his database:
b109f3bbbc244eb82441917ed06d618b9008dd09b3befd1b5e07394c706a8bb980b1d7785e5976ec049b46df5f1326af5a2ea6d103fd07c95385ffab0cacbc86
bc547750b92797f955b36112cc9bdd5cddf7d0862151d03a167ada8995aa24a9ad24610b36a68bc02da24141ee51670aea13ed6469099a4453f335cb239db5da
adfb6dd1ab1238afc37acd8ca24c1279f8d46f61907dd842faab35b0cc41c6e8ad84cbdbef4964b8334c22c4985c2387d53bc47e6c3d0940ac962f521a127d9f
3c9909afec25354d551dae21590bb26e38d53f2173b8d3dc3eee4c047e7ab1c1eb8b85103e3be7ba613b31bb5c9c36214dc9f14a42fd7a2fdb84856bca5c44c2
d404559f602eab6fd602ac7680dacbfaadd13630335e951f097af3900e9de176b6db28512f2e000b9d04fba5133e8b1c6e8df59db3a8ab9d60be4b97cc9e81db
3627909a29c31381a071ec27f7c9ca97726182aed29a7ddd2e54353322cfb30abb9e3a6df2ac2c20fe23436311d678564d0c8d305930575f60e2d3d048184d79
ba3253876aed6bc22d4a6ff53d8406c6ad864195ed144ab5c87621b6c233b548baeae6956df346ec8c17f5ea10f35ee3cbc514797ed7ddd3145464e2a0bab413
ddaf35a193617abacc417349ae20413112e6fa4e89a97ea20a9eeee64b55d39a2192992a274fc1a836ba3c23a3feebbd454d4423643ce80e2a9ac94fa54ca49f
c70b5dd9ebfb6f51d09d4132b7170c9d20750a7852f00680f65658f0310e810056e6763c34c9a00b0e940076f54495c169fc2302cceb312039271c43469507dc
0dd3e512642c97ca3f747f9a76e374fbda73f9292823c0313be9d78add7cdd8f72235af0c553dd26797e78e1854edee0ae002f8aba074b066dfce1af114e32f8
401b09eab3c013d4ca54922bb802bec8fd5318192b0a75f201d8b3727429080fb337591abd3e44453b954555b7a0812e1081c39b740293f765eae731f5a65ed1
9719a6439375c9115e01dceda86e210e5f2d78a6cf3f4872997746832c4c0f58c5ae0923fabe5acfb923dfc94a117a7d444e453622912dfa193fc6636581f159
In case you're wondering, those are the SHA-512 hashes for password
, password1
, letmein
, 123
, 1234
, 12345
, 123456
, abc
, abc123
, qwerty
, asdf
and swordfish
respectively. You can easily find more likely candidates, if you want.
Then have your friend read about precomputed dictionary attacks and rainbow tables.