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But if the password is salted is it still easy to crack?

• hansvm 6y ago
  Yes, definitely. The salt just means you have to compute a few hashes yourself rather than relying on a lookup table.
• tracker1 6y ago
  Yes... there are lists that are generally used for common variants of passphrases and can generally crack a simple passphrase like ggp in less than a day easily, faster or slower depending on hardware in use, concurrency and order. 4-5 dictionary words with proper sentence structure is a lot safer for the most part. Random safer still, but much harder to remember... my current password for work in a sentence with 24 characters. spaces, capitals and punctuation. Other than my OS and password manager, I really don't remember any other passwords I use, and the majority are random generated at this point. I also use a wildcard mail forwarder, so most new sites I've used in the past year or two are all unique emails as well.