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Re:A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords by hackerboos on Thursday September 05, 2013 @04:27AM (#6332858)
http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/03/dont-use-bcrypt.html
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Re:A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords by tptacek on Thursday September 05, 2013 @10:22AM (#6334342)
That article was simply wrong. The chart at the top of it was added after it was pointed out that PBKDF2 is worse than bcrypt as a password hash, and the chart refutes the article.
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Re:A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords by est on Thursday September 05, 2013 @05:00AM (#6332951)
Great article. Old discussion here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3724560

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