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With sane defaults, bcrypted passwords are "worthless" in the hands of a casual attacker. Somebody would have to REALLY want to access your account and have SI
by mLewisLogic 13y ago
With sane defaults, bcrypted passwords are "worthless" in the hands of a casual attacker.
Somebody would have to REALLY want to access your account and have SIGNIFICANT financial/computational resources to crack it. And that only gives them one password. Significant and independent work is required for each individual password.
On the other hand, there's nothing stopping a developer from doing something really dumb like setting bcrypt iterations to 1.
- s_kilk 13y ago>> On the other hand, there's nothing stopping a developer from doing something really dumb like setting bcrypt iterations to 1. I _really_ hope that doesn't turn out to be the case here.