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Re:Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Pass... by stordoff on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @11:49AM (#4570971)
md5 is not really much better than plain text (I imagine a few Amazon GPU instances could crack most of the md5 hashes very quickly). bcrypt is the way forward in most cases.
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