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by mappu 5225 days ago
It does however mean you have to spend two days per password, rather than two days for the entire user base, or ten minutes with a pre-existing lookup table.
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No, consumer GPUs can do almost a billion SHA1 hashes per second now. We're talking seconds to minutes for "complex" passwords, not days.

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/