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		chickopozo on March 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I became a password cracker Encryption does not provide Integrity (hash) or authentication (mac) crypt(1) should be an example of how not to do hashing.

alexkus on March 25, 2013 [–]

Perfectly true, but those points are irrelevant for password hashing.

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