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To: Bush2000
Password salting doesn't make your passwords unbreakable, n00b.

Quit reaching for straws, you know what I mean. I'm trying to save typing since I have to do it over and over and over for you guys. Look back, I've used qualifiers showing that I mean breakable in a practical sense, either by the time it would take to do a computational brute-force or the disk space it would take to hold a lookup table.

577 posted on 09/01/2005 11:08:02 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
Quit reaching for straws, you know what I mean. I'm trying to save typing since I have to do it over and over and over for you guys. Look back, I've used qualifiers showing that I mean breakable in a practical sense, either by the time it would take to do a computational brute-force or the disk space it would take to hold a lookup table.

You aren't making any point at all. Using a sufficiently strong salt/password is no more unbreakable than using a sufficently strong Windows password. Again, you're trying to get into a thing-waving contest over whose passwords are more secure AFTER THE MACHINE HAS ALREADY BEEN COMPROMISED PHYSICALLY. That's a ridiculous scenario, and nearly all security experts would agree with me.
579 posted on 09/01/2005 11:12:50 AM PDT by Bush2000 (Linux -- You Get What You Pay For ... (tm)
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