Re:Scribd hacked – emails and hashed passwords leaked
by beachstartup on Thursday April 04, 2013 @07:03PM
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yeah if you simply know what a password is, of course it's compromised, but you're not supposed to easily break a salted hashed password.
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Re:Scribd hacked – emails and hashed passwords leaked
by icebraining on Friday April 05, 2013 @05:49AM
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Salts only really protect against rainbow tables; if the attacker is willing to use a dictionary or brute force attack against a single password, they're not of much use.