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by davidhollander 5465 days ago
> Even with the iteration count, SHA512 is not exactly meant to be slow.

Increasing iteration count is synonymous with intending something to be slow. BCrypt itself uses a default of 2^10 iterations in most bindings. PBKDF2 + and an NIST studied hashing algo like SHA512 is a perfectly valid method.

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Iteration is valid, but what is this about "triple salting"?

Googling "triple salted" sha -gox gives me 13 results, of which 3 are about caramel cupcakes and none are serious evaluations of such an approach. It sounds like homebrew security.

I can't see how it could mean anything at all. Your password is either salted or it isn't, a hash can't really be said to have multiple salts. Maybe they're using different salts in their various rounds of hashing, can't see how that would provide any more security.