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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

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