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> It's essentially impossible to reverse the hashed password. It’s essentially a nontrivial unit of work to brute force the hash (or exploit collisions for a c
by eyelidlessness 5y ago
> It's essentially impossible to reverse the hashed password.
It’s essentially a nontrivial unit of work to brute force the hash (or exploit collisions for a compromised hashing algo). That’s not impossible but it’s important not to overstate its safety too.
- mholt 5y ago... for one account. It takes N times as many more resources to do that for N more accounts. The attacks are impractically expensive for most attackers.