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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:55:31 +0200
From: Albert Veli <albert.veli@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Anyone looked at the Ashley Madison data yet?

On 2015-08-21 14:08, Patrick Proniewski wrote:
> Is there any reason why most people seem using weaker hash than Bcrypt
> to store passwords in their apps/web site/other ? patpro 
It takes more CPU power to authenticate using bcrypt hashes. Maybe some
site developers are afraid of dos attacks, and others just don't know
that bcrypt is safer (harder to break).

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