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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:08:27 +0200
From: Patrick Proniewski <patpro@...pro.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Anyone looked at the Ashley Madison data yet?

Hi,

On 21 août 2015, at 14:03, Albert Veli wrote:

> Bcrypt is so slow it is impossible to work with a list that big. But it is
> possible to split it into, say 1000 hashes per file. With a short list,
> like this:
> https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/blob/master/Passwords/top_shortlist.txt
> it still takes half an hour to just try these 26 words... And for 36
> million hashes, you get 36000 files with 1000 hashes in each. I get dizzy
> just thinking about the amount of work it would take to just try the
> shortlist.


Is there any reason why most people seem using weaker hash than Bcrypt to store passwords in their apps/web site/other ?

patpro

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