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Hashed was indeed what I meant. I tend to use the words interchangeably, in error. What I meant to say is the strategies in use can vary quite a bit. Are they u
by gmanley 13y ago
Hashed was indeed what I meant. I tend to use the words interchangeably, in error. What I meant to say is the strategies in use can vary quite a bit. Are they using a salt and/or a pepper? Are they using bcrypt or the like? Based on those answers one can usually guess if its feasible to break those in a reasonable amount of time.
- Cushman 13y agoSorry, reading that again I sound like a dick. I know it's a common error and I didn't mean to nitpick. I only mention it because there's an important difference in that with hashing, it doesn't really matter as much what the strategy is, since a bad password is a bad password. Better hashing only means a lower percentage of your intermediately-secure passwords are compromised right away. Since they (should) have no way of knowing which passwords are secure, they have to treat them all as compromised even if they were storing them "right".