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I've had many other devs link me to that XKCD post about how any standard password is 'safe', yet fail to acknowledge the major differences in how those passwor
by devwastaken 10y ago
I've had many other devs link me to that XKCD post about how any standard password is 'safe', yet fail to acknowledge the major differences in how those passwords are hashed and stored. So many people just quote the math and say: "Math can't lie". It can't, but the very complex math behind the actual hashing is different from just multiplying charsets.