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Re:Two Canadian banks say accounts compromised: CIBC 40,000 ... by gruez on Monday May 28, 2018 @09:35PM (#17175810)
at 6 characters, does it even matter? even salted + hashed + memory hard kdf isn't going to save you.
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Re:Two Canadian banks say accounts compromised: CIBC 40,000 ... by kevin_nisbet on Monday May 28, 2018 @10:16PM (#17175989)
Agreed, napkin math say's around 3 day's on a single CPU core to test every password.
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