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Of course, the other key thing is to avoid giving attackers offline access to the hash database if possible. Even with scrypt, if you let someone try offline, he will get good results on 100 password attempts per account. Users are often using such weak passwords that being only an online oracle and able to shut down after a number of tries on a password, or at least to do app level rate limiting, is still useful.


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