> Really?  Could you explain why an authentication scheme whose primary claim 
> to fame is 
> its high computational cost is a good choice for a database system that needs 
> to do 
> hundreds of authentications per minute or second?

I've been taught that the hashing function for passwords should be "slow". 
Hence it makes brute force attacks harder, because the attacker needs to wait 
for each attempt.

-- 
Mgr. Jiří Činčura
Independent IT Specialist


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