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But there are rainbow tables, or tables of all of the MD5s/SHA1s/<insert favorite hash algorithm> for arbitrary strings. So the time's already sunk in.

8 days for one password is a very short amount of time comparatively (tiny for a botnet). If you use bcrypt, which you can force a certain complexity on, you can get that amount of time up much higher.




Rainbow tables don't work even against amateurish salted hash schemes.




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