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A comment on Dropbox employee’s password reuse led to theft of 60M+ user credentials. Parent comment
> [...] batch of encrypted passwords [...]
> [...] from using the encryption algorithm SHA-1
> Some of the stolen passwords were encrypted with SHA-1, while 32 million were encrypted with bcrypt
> The passwords were also secured with a salt, a random data string added to strengthen the encryption.
> it does not appear that the encryption protecting them has been cracked.
I know it's completely tangential and I'm just nitpicking but damn that does bother me more than it should.
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> [...] batch of encrypted passwords [...]
> [...] from using the encryption algorithm SHA-1
> Some of the stolen passwords were encrypted with SHA-1, while 32 million were encrypted with bcrypt
> The passwords were also secured with a salt, a random data string added to strengthen the encryption.
> it does not appear that the encryption protecting them has been cracked.
I know it's completely tangential and I'm just nitpicking but damn that does bother me more than it should.