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Subject: Re: PHK's MD5 might not be slow enough anymore
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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:24:43 -0500
Roger <rnodal@gmail.com> wrote:

> What would be the consequence of having an algorithm that will
> increase the amount of time needed to check the next password after a
> failure.


The point of slowing down the algorithm is to protect against off-line
attack where an attacker has gained access to a copy of master.passwd.
Any hashing has to be done when the password is set, so it's fixed
thereafter.