[Cryptography] How secure are hashed passwords?

[Dan McDonald]

On May 21, 2014, at 8:47 PM, John R. Levine wrote:

> I see in the press that eBay had a large security breach, in which the
> bad guys stole a lot of personal information such as physical address
> and birth date, and the encrypted passwords.  So eBay wants everyone
> to change their passwords.  Huh?

1.) I'd heard *encrypted* passwords, not hashed.

2.) For some f*cked up reason, Ebay has an upper limit on password size.  NO idea why.  :-P

Dan