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Comment by apitman

3 days ago

Wouldn't this be super slow if you're using a proper password hashing algorithm?

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eru  2 days ago

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.

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