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Re:Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked a... by bbcbasic on Thursday June 09, 2016 @03:26AM (#11868043)
Would something like an ASIC help the attacker, I wonder?
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Re:Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked a... by drrob on Thursday June 09, 2016 @07:56AM (#11868777)
Or some curious, thousands-of-computers strong grid-based cracking enterprise. I suppose, even constrained by the current state of tech, cracking bcrypt with some kind of massively parallel dictionary attack isn't entirely unfeasible.
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