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Re:How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” by chiph on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @12:48PM (#5781068)
Given that an attacker is going to focus on high-value accounts if they can, slowing down a brute force attack on a per-hashed-value basis is pretty much your only defense. Adding complexity (like you would when defending against a rainbow table attack) adds little value when defending against a GPU-based attack that can crank out a billion hashes a minute. So what you can do is add artificial length to the password + salt combination by using a very long salt. By necessity, you'd have to use a better hashing algorithm that will have a lower chance of an attacker getting lucky with a collision, and maybe is "slower" than other hash algorithms.
Re:How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” by _b8r0 on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @02:35PM (#5781754)
Nope. The correct way to do this is to use a password based key derivation function like scrypt[1] or pbkdf2[2].

[1] - https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2