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by Osmium 4003 days ago
> In practice sites get hacked, fail to enforce HTTPS, databases get leaked, etc.

Exactly. The threat here is that a single SuperGenPass-generated site-specific is leaked somehow (if you use it for a lot of sites, one of them is bound to be storing a password in plaintext, or not using https, or whatever–or, for all I know, the OP is such an important target maybe someone specifically sets up a website to capture a sample site-specific password). Then, using that site-specific password, a determined attacker might be able to recover your master password and then be able to login to all the other websites you use SuperGenPass with. That's the danger of using a 'fast' hash function to generate your site-specific password.

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Ok, I finally get your point, thanks for detailed explanation.