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Re:MtGox salted passwords cracked by getsat on Sunday June 26, 2011 @08:23AM (#2697900)
I'm pretty sure this article[1] is posted daily on HN. General purpose hashing functions are all fast (which, for a password storage system, is synonymous with bad).

[1] http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

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