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Yea, until someone steals their hashes.


But there are plenty of password stretching algorithms like bcrypt.

A very reduced keyspace, but we all knew people's password choices are poor anyway right?


Which is easier said than done. Honestly if someone can do that, you have bigger problems to worry about.


All your hashes are belong to us




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