Comment by apitman Comment by apitman 5 days ago 1 reply Copy Link View on Hacker News Wouldn't this be super slow if you're using a proper password hashing algorithm?
Copy Link eru 4 days ago Collapse Comment - Yes, if it takes one cpu second to hash a password, it'll take a while to try a few like this.You can do a quick check against the last password (which you have in clear, because it was just entered), though. Reply View | 0 replies
Yes, if it takes one cpu second to hash a password, it'll take a while to try a few like this.
You can do a quick check against the last password (which you have in clear, because it was just entered), though.