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If you read the analysis in the article, it would take many years to crack a random password with this hash function.

You are wrong. Your analysis is based on the premise that an attacker might be able to compute "a billion hashes per second".

As I just showed you in my previous comment anyone with $3000 USD can actually compute at least 6000 billion hashes per second.

This means it takes about 11 days to crack a random 8-character alphanumeric password. Not 200 years as you claim.



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