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Re:Slack was hacked by kijin on Saturday March 28, 2015 @08:14AM (#9281253)
So you basically increased the cracker's workload by six orders of magnitude, which is equivalent to increasing bcrypt's work factor by 20. Cool!
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Re:Slack was hacked by im2w1l on Saturday March 28, 2015 @10:55AM (#9281655)
If you increase bcrypt's workfactor then legitimate requests take longer.
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