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Is this a question or an answer?

Paŭlo Ebermann
– Paŭlo Ebermann

2011-08-19 01:44:44 +00:00
Commented Aug 19, 2011 at 1:44
"Is this a question about a question or about an answer?"

Niklas Rosencrantz
– Niklas Rosencrantz

2012-06-11 09:33:42 +00:00
Commented Jun 11, 2012 at 9:33
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This is an extremely broken implementation which should be highlighted as an example of how not to implement password hashing. First: SHA1 is not a suitable algorithm, as it is extremely fast. Second: salts must be unique and should not be guessable. While using the current time is not abysmal, it is quite simply not good enough.

Stephen Touset
– Stephen Touset

2012-11-11 02:24:25 +00:00
Commented Nov 11, 2012 at 2:24

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