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For anyone who missed it in Quora's post, passwords were salted and hashed, which makes it functionally impossible to decrypt en-masse. Targeted attacks (trying
by larkeith 8y ago
For anyone who missed it in Quora's post, passwords were salted and hashed, which makes it functionally impossible to decrypt en-masse. Targeted attacks (trying to discover a specific user's password) may or may not be feasible, depending on if the salts were retrieved, how many iterations and which hashing algorithm was used, and the processing power available to the attacker.