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cylo
3610 days ago
To make the password hash harder to crack. There's a big difference in time to crack the hash for "Passw0rd" vs "$)63hjbbdhs23".
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Sylos
3610 days ago
The hash for "Passw0rd" would almost certainly also be in some Rainbow table, so effectively no computation time in that case...
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yAnonymous
3610 days ago
>$)63hjbbdhs23
Great, I'll just store this in my password manag... oh, wait.
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Relys
3610 days ago
https://www.yubico.com/
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nacs
3610 days ago
Just write it on a Postit and affix it to your monitor.
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