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		ZoFreX on April 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Enough with the Salts: Updates on Secure Password ... When you can do 60 billion attempts per second, 1 million is a pretty small number. Edit: That said, they do still provide value, by making password collisions less obvious.

caf on April 2, 2015 [–]

60 billion divided by 1 million is 6 thousand, and 6 thousand is a much smaller number than 60 billion.

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