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		adulau on Dec 14, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How To Safely Store A Password When seeing the title, I was expecting an article about CMAC or HMAC or even PBKDF2-like function but it's the "old" bcrypt.

mfukar on Dec 14, 2010 [–]

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

EDIT: Oh, you mean it was similar to other submissions. Fair enough.

adulau on Dec 14, 2010 | [–]

Not really. Just it was already mentioned sometimes ago about the fixed cost function in bcrypt:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=762708

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