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Or you know... a simple dictionary attack. Salts aren't magic fairy dust that stops weak passwords from being brute forced.
by ayrx 12y ago
Or you know... a simple dictionary attack. Salts aren't magic fairy dust that stops weak passwords from being brute forced.
- csirac2 12y agoTrue. The real problem is if you use a hash that's not designed for protecting passwords and can be computed at a rate of millions/billions per second on commodity hardware - versus s-crypt & friends which should only allow for 10s-100s guesses per second on the same hardware.