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by wizardishungry 5661 days ago
You wouldn't need 4096 if the choice of the salt was non-random; some versions of Unix used the first 2 characters of the username. What's the space requirement for a single rainbow table?
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I don't know, but none of what they did was even marginally useful against iterated password crackers, so, change your password.