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		cheatercheater on June 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One way to fix your rubbish password database Red light coming up in the back of my head. Wouldn't the MD5->scrypt pipeline expose new attacks that scrypt doesn't have? Maybe there's a higher collision probability or some known-text attack, but I'm really shooting in the dark here.

tptacek on June 10, 2012 [–]

No.

cheatercheater on June 11, 2012 | [–]

That's one person whose "no" I'll accept without further explanations. Thanks for clarifying.

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