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Re:Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked a... by cm2187 on Thursday June 09, 2016 @07:09AM (#11868616)
In the comment at the bottom it says: bcrypt work factor is 5, scrypt work factor is N=1024 r=1, and PBKDF2 rounds are set to 1,000.

If they did indeed use a work factor of 5 then this analysis is pretty much meaningless for bcrypt. The default is 10 and I usually use 12 myself.

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