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jemfinch on June 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: League of Legends database compromised, passwords ...

"We compared encrypted password hashes and discovered that 11 passwords were shared by over 10,000 players each."

You can't do that with salt. That's half the point of salting.

thaumaturgy on June 9, 2012 [–]

Of course you can. It's just more computationally expensive.

I realize that it's super unlikely that that's what they did, but that doesn't change the fact that at the moment all we know about their password storage system comes from a badly worded PR piece.

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