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Re:Guide to User Data Security by brokenwren on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:27AM (#12049136)
Simple passwords are mitigated by salting and slat modification. The guide covers both of these and hashing. This should be sufficient even against thousands of GPUs.
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Re:Guide to User Data Security by aj-code on Thursday July 07, 2016 @05:21PM (#12052154)
In short, it's not. A robust scheme should be secure if the attacker knows the algorithm or not. The secret should not be the algorithm, the secret should be a sufficiently long secret value.
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