(skeletor is leading by example by adding that unnecessary apostrophe…)

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    For the benefit of the person above you, thats not to say that hashed passwords are unbreakable, because hackers can build a thing called a rainbow rmtable where they hash a bunch of known passwords, words, and phrases, and then can compare their rainbow table agains a stolen hash to learn what the starting value might have been. Thats why a complex password is very useful