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by gus_massa 3499 days ago
If you hash each letter separately, then for the fist letter you have something like $2a$06$54k.unrkdM4PInCBA9Kx9uTQEa8GZR76dO7xx4puT9m2rhtFioFbm . Can you guess which letter it is?

(spoiler alert)

It's very easy to recover each letter separately using brute force. If your password has 8 letters and for the sake of simplicity let's assume the they are only uppercase normal letter, then the difficulty to guess it is reducer from 26^8=2E11 to 26*8=2E2. (The difference is bigger with a longer password or a bigger alphabet.)