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luxuryballs
236 days ago
well at least it was a password hash :D
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dmitrygr
236 days ago
Don't get too excited. They never said what kind of hash. Given the rest of the site's security design, might have easily been unsalted md5
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auxiliarymoose
236 days ago
Or maybe rot26 — I've heard it's twice as secure as rot13!
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mulmen
236 days ago
It’s 2025, you should at least be on rot52.
Best practice guide:
https://github.com/killerk3emstar/rot52
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auxiliarymoose
236 days ago
Ah, thanks! Hard to keep up with this stuff. Next thing you know the boffins will tell us we need to switch to rot104 or even rot208 because of "post-quantum cryptography" or something.
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Group_B
236 days ago
There's probably another rockyou out there waiting to happen
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