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Re:Password leaks bigger than first thought by terangdom on Saturday June 09, 2012 @08:24PM (#4089757)
They usually use less than one bit per password.
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Re:Password leaks bigger than first thought by tedunangst on Saturday June 09, 2012 @09:43PM (#4089906)
People here don't know what rainbow tables are. If you asked them to build a rainbow table, you'd get... a table. (You're right.)
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Re:Password leaks bigger than first thought by rpearl on Sunday June 10, 2012 @12:40AM (#4090197)
Thank you for the contentless comment. Instead, you might consider offering a more interesting algorithm, its tradeoffs, and why it is beneficial to take more computation time?
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Re:Password leaks bigger than first thought by tedunangst on Sunday June 10, 2012 @10:34AM (#4091142)
A rainbow table doesn't store every hash for the password space it's built for. I'm sure you already knew that, but decided to pretend otherwise when calculating the size of one.
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