5 ms·
You're now doing up to 3x the work for every login. When servicing millions of requests a second, that cost adds up.
by teawrecks 5y ago
You're now doing up to 3x the work for every login. When servicing millions of requests a second, that cost adds up.
- lordgrenville 5y agoI would imagine it's sequential: check exact match hash, if it fails check uppercase-initial-hash, etc.
- jsnell 5y agoPasswords are only verified on login. Does it seems reasonable that there are millions of logins to Gmail from mobile devices every second? Back of the envelope: 2 million logins per second would mean about 170 billion logins per day. With 7 billion people on the planet, that'd mean about 25 logins per day from each man, woman and child.
- danachow 5y ago“Up to 3x the work” is very misleading, since the average will be much less than 3.