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		angry_octet on Aug 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than p... A GTX1080 gets 25GH/s on MD5, that is 1.5x10^16 per week. The salt is known -- makes rainbow attacks impractical, but doesn't reduce the hashing rate. Martin Kleppman explained the problem back in 2013: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2013/05/24/improving-security-o...

petee on Aug 5, 2018 [–]

I conveniently forgot the salt is public ::facepalm::

I also was using the OP numbers, verses trying to do any math or research myself first ::second facepalm::

angry_octet on Aug 5, 2018 | [–]

It alright, that's why we have HN - not to be always right first and fastest, but to go deeper.

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