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The idea (I think) is that it's more difficult to build dedicated hardware for the brute force attack that's cheaper than doing it with a general-purpose CPU.
by taejo 12y ago
The idea (I think) is that it's more difficult to build dedicated hardware for the brute force attack that's cheaper than doing it with a general-purpose CPU.
- beejiu 12y agoBut, it only makes it unbreakable for 50% of passwords? Would it not be better to have an alternating scheme, i.e. MD5 -> SHA1 -> MD5 -> SHA1 repeated 100,000 times, rather than choosing a scheme deterministically at the start.