Re:HipChat security notice
by Jach on Monday April 24, 2017 @07:31PM
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Bcrypt isn't magic. It will help slow down a full crack against everyone when every pw takes some tens of ms to check (though even if they had a hefty work factor of 1 second on a beefy ec2 instance, you can check a million accounts for 'password' in 11.5 days on a single machine, much less when you can spin up many more instances / leverage a botnet of many if less powerful machines). And if you want to target an individual user, you can try a million different PWs on their account over the same period. That's why it's best practice for everyone to rotate, though if your PW is complex and you're not a particularly juicy target you can probably get away with not doing it right now.
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