> The takeaway here is that cracking a 64bit password only cost $1700 and is totally doable in 3 weeks. Not quite - you need to run the hash function that the

> The takeaway here is that cracking a 64bit password only cost $1700 and is totally doable in 3 weeks. Not quite - you need to run the hash function that the password is stored with, and that might be a factor of 1,000,000+ slowdown relative to "are these numbers the same".