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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A few? I always had an easy time cracking my mom's desktop password with them so I guess Microsoft wasn't doing it with XP or Vista.

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just to give you some opposite example, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Django are using salts almost 2 decades now.

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You do realize XP and Vista are few decades old?

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

No I'm a few decades old.