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It strikes me that this only grows the length of your typed in password by one bit: did they use PwdHash? Y/N. The other components of the salt, namely the site
by JulianMorrison 13y ago
It strikes me that this only grows the length of your typed in password by one bit: did they use PwdHash? Y/N. The other components of the salt, namely the site details, are implicit.
- plywoodtrees 13y agoIt doesn't make your password for any particular site any harder to guess. It does avoid reuse, without needing to sync or otherwise remember N distinct passwords, which is worthwhile. Reuse is the main reason why theft of password dbs (as distinct from just compromise of the site) is a problem for the user.