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by mbreese 5477 days ago
I was thinking more along the lines that knowing how the nonce(s) were added to the password would make it easier to scan for password in a brute force manner. For example, if you know the hashed password would be in the form 'nonce:username:password', it would be easier to know when you found the correct password, regardless of what the nonce is.