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Re:Slack was hacked by cpeterso on Friday March 27, 2015 @02:57PM (#9278349)
You can change your pepper by double-peppering your existing password database:

  scrypt(scrypt(scrypt(scrypt(password, salt), pepper2013), pepper2014), pepper2015)
https://blog.filippo.io/salt-and-pepper/
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Re:Slack was hacked by flurdy on Friday March 27, 2015 @07:00PM (#9279612)
Sounds like a maintenance nightmare. Need to ensure you keep your tongue straight when partitioning or restoring databases, migrating/splitting to new apps etc.
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