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by brokenwren 3638 days ago
Simple passwords are mitigated by salting and slat modification. The guide covers both of these and hashing. This should be sufficient even against thousands of GPUs.
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In short, it's not. A robust scheme should be secure if the attacker knows the algorithm or not. The secret should not be the algorithm, the secret should be a sufficiently long secret value.