On Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:15 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> > Il giorno 11/feb/2013, alle ore 13:25, Jesse Noller <[email protected] 
> > (mailto:[email protected])> ha scritto:
> > 
> > > Actually I was thinking about this in the shower: the likelihood that 
> > > pypi users used the same passwords as they did on the wiki is probably 
> > > much higher than any of us assume.
> > 
> > Given that the passwords were unsalted in both instances, a set 
> > intersection is enough to verify.
> 
> The moin wiki passwords were salted.
> 
> The reason we reset the passwords, was that the attackers had
> access to both the salt and the hashes.
> 
What were they hashed with? Even with a salt a fast hash is trivial to
bruteforce for a large number of passwords in practically no time
with trivial hardware. 

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