[Cryptography] How secure are hashed passwords?

[Bob Simmons]

On 21 May 2014 at 18:45, Tony Arcieri wrote:

> 
> Previous breaches have given us a lot of data about how people use passwords. An awful lot of
> people are still using extremely weak passwords like "123456" or "password". No password
> hashing algorithm that's actually useful can reasonably defend against these commonly used,
> weak passwords.
> 

Not excusing the use of weak passwords, but some sites (like Paypal) won't let you paste 
into the "new password" and "confirm password" fields. Do you want to manually type in a 
20 character string from a password generator? I get out the dice at that point.

Bob

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