News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked by shkkmo on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:47PM (#28779464)
> But by the sounds of it, SHA1 is more than enough (given that nobody here is willing to brute force the hash I shared above?)

Absolutely not and that is a ridicoulous conclusion to draw. State-level resources are absolutely not required to break sha1.

> but if your password _isn't_ cracked it's moot whether it's hashed with SHA1 or something more secure, as per above?

Again, absolutely not. The algorithm and cost setting have a huge impact on the practical likihood that an attacker will crack your password.

There are no comments on this comment yet.