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1024core on May 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: LinkedIn password leak

> why would the ratio change based on the password?

Probably because they may assume a dictionary order of cracking attempts?

zaroth on May 19, 2016 [–]

I mean, why would the supercomputer sometimes be 1,000,000 times faster and then for a different password be 3,000,000 times faster?

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