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solardiz committed Jun 7, 2024
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guessing will be too slow for the attacker
to discover a strong passphrase.
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All of the hashing methods use a
Most of the hashing methods use a
.Dq salt
to perturb the hash function,
so that the same passphrase may produce many possible hashes.
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which makes them impractically large.
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All of the hashing methods are also deliberately engineered to be slow;
Most of the hashing methods are also deliberately engineered to be slow;
they use many iterations of an underlying cryptographic primitive
to increase the cost of each guess.
The newer hashing methods allow the number of iterations to be adjusted,
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