Skip to content

Comment on A New, Simple Way to Salt your Hashesparent

Comments

The time it takes bcrypt to verify one password is a tunable parameter; that's the fundamental feature of the algorithm. If you want a password check to take one full second, you can do that. A dictionary attack against one six-character password on that system, even offline against a captured hash, would take years.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.