Re:iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm
by jart on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:56PM
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Do you know how computationally expensive it is to hash passwords?
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Re:iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm
by hasty on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:36PM
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It's computationally expensive to hash every single possible password, but given a proposed login/password combo, it's not expensive to check just the one. If Google, in crawling, finds a dump of several million accounts and their purported passwords, it's not a heavy lift to check each password.