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by maccard 1722 days ago
The reason I didn't give any more information on the password above is because you don't have any extra information on a dump of hashes from a twitch database either. If a password is only feasibly brute forceable for a specific algorithm by reducing the search space by many orders of magnitude, it kind of shows that there's not really any risk even if the passwords are unsalted for a person who hasn't reused a password.
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> it kind of shows that there's not really any risk even if the passwords are unsalted for a person who hasn't reused a password.

No, it doesn't. You could reuse uwv&6qu_brusb618_$@618jg everywhere and it wouldn't get cracked. If the plaintext password leaked, then you'd be in more trouble.

What matters is whether your password is easy to guess, not whether you've reused it. If you have all unique passwords, they can still all be trivial to crack.