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You're talking about Bcrypt like its some magical golden unicorn that will cover your ass from all attack vectors. Sure, its awesome. But modern security requir

You're talking about Bcrypt like its some magical golden unicorn that will cover your ass from all attack vectors. Sure, its awesome. But modern security requires more than just an awesome encryption algorithm.

tptacek 14y ago
No, I'm talking about bcrypt like it's better than iterated SHA2, which is very, very fast on GPUs. There is no such thing as a unicorn.
mikeash 14y ago
At what point does he attribute any unicorn-like properties to bcrypt? All he says is that SHA2 is worse, which is completely true.