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That wouldnbe still pain text actually, because it's easy to have a table for hash -> char. Chararcters being limited by their numbers.


Fine. Refer to my detailed answer below that shows longer hashing difficult to bruteforce.


I don't find your other answer. But, basically if you hash one character, there is only ~ 255 possibities (a-zA-Z0-9 plus some special chars). So, a 10 characters password is only ~ 2,500 hash to compute and that's nothing. Might as well store it in plaintext, because it in fact is.




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