LinkedIn Password Leak: Salt Their Hide

If it does not take a full second to calculate the password hash, it is too weak.

POUL-HENNING KAMP

6.5 million unsalted SHA1 hashed LinkedIn passwords have appeared in the criminal underground. There are two words in that sentence that should cause LinkedIn no end of concern: “unsalted” and “SHA1.”

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2254400

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