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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Brute force protection

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (39 children)

This could actually work though lol, it's genius

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago (38 children)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (21 children)

Rainbow tables and presumably newer stuff I haven't heard of make this sort of thing weaker than it used to be

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Salting makes rainbow tables pretty much useless, and salting has been a standard practise for a few decades now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A few? I always had an easy time cracking my mom's desktop password with them so I guess Microsoft wasn't doing it with XP or Vista.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Just to give you some opposite example, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Django are using salts almost 2 decades now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You do realize XP and Vista are few decades old?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

No I'm a few decades old.

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