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Passwords are secret keys which human beings can memorize.

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Hashes to passwords with PBKDF2

If an attacker wants to hack the passwords of $2^{10}$ users. … How many hashes would an attacker need to do to get all passwords in the worst case? …
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Password Hashing based on Common Passwords

If an attacker has a database of 1,000 users' hashed passwords which are hashed with SHA-256 with a 128-bit salt and all of these users used 10,000 common passwords. … How many hashes will the hacker need to do to recover all passwords? …
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How many hashes to recover a salted password? [closed]

If a password p is selected from a space of 2^64 passwords, and the server stores this as a hash, h = SHA-256(p||s) where s is a random 128-bit salt. … I was thinking that this is a pre-image attack so the attacker needs to find the same hash as the passwords. SHA-256 provides 256 bits of pre-image resistance. …
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Password hashing and salting with SHA-256 on $2^{64}$ password space

If a password is randomly chosen from a space of $2^{64}$ passwords and is stored as an SHA-256-bit hash and a 128-bit salt, how many hashes does an attacker need to perform to recover the password in …
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