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Trying not to be pedantic, but this is something everyone should know. If I can pull a list of two-way encrypted passwords, breaking that is way faster than ex
by shubber 15y ago
Trying not to be pedantic, but this is something everyone should know.
If I can pull a list of two-way encrypted passwords, breaking that is way faster than extracting passwords from a properly crypted list. Essentially it's a huge list of short (almost known plaintext) messages. If you know a cryptosystem that will resist attack in that circumstance, please share.
Properly crypted, passwords admit to local brute forcing, which is bad for any particular account.
"Recoverable" passwords, the whole list admits to statistical attacks that break the whole list.