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Which is why passwords just shouldn't be stored with simple hash functions. Even a naïve salt+iteration method would have drastically slowed the attack.
by nknighthb 13y ago
Which is why passwords just shouldn't be stored with simple hash functions. Even a naïve salt+iteration method would have drastically slowed the attack.
- jacques_chester 13y agoRight. Using MD5 hashes was done as a relaxing constraint -- at the other end, the attackers had tightened constraints by getting limited time and computing power. The goal was to show how attackers work and think.