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Re:StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data by blondin on Sunday August 04, 2019 @08:32PM (#20610131)
nowhere in these benchmarks anyone said the MD5 were salted. am i reading it wrong?
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Re:StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data by thenewnewguy on Sunday August 04, 2019 @08:42PM (#20610170)
Unless you're operating under the (likely incorrect) assumption that the salts aren't leaked than salting the password doesn't matter for attacking a single user - it just means you can't reuse your results for other users.
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