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		charcircuit on July 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft denies data breach, theft of 30M custome... Good point. How about splitting the password into chunks, then use a key streching algorthim on each chunk with difficulty tuned to be easier based off the total amount of chunks, and concatenating them.

gpvos on July 8, 2023 [–]

That sounds like the kind of homebrew crypto that one should never do in production. I'll stick to my boring but proven salted hashes, thanks.

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