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It does mean that for a large dictionary attack things will go a lot slower. Rather than one computing one hash and comparing it to 50M hashes, the same word mu
by nwh 14y ago
It does mean that for a large dictionary attack things will go a lot slower. Rather than one computing one hash and comparing it to 50M hashes, the same word must be hashed with 50M different salts and then compared with their respective hashes.
- mpyne 14y agoThat's a more specific way of phrasing reversing the hash into a password, yes. ;)
- hexonexxon 14y agoYou can rent miners on the bitcoin network to use their pooled hashrate to break passwords, same with moxie's service cloudcracker.com