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Re:Slack was hacked by coldcode on Friday March 27, 2015 @02:34PM (#9278217)
With a separate salt for each password not even the NSA can crack that (that we know of). With a single salt for all of them, maybe.
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Re:Slack was hacked by nevir on Friday March 27, 2015 @03:23PM (#9278478)
Sure they can. Anyone can. It just takes a long time per password to crack (that time is a function of the cost/# of rounds of the hashing function).
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