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Perfect being the enemy of good enough, etc.

Also its a bit unfair. Given this attack, design a perfect defense. OK here's an easy one. Oh OK well that works, but they'll just try a different attack. Well yeah, but that wasn't the initial challenge provided.

Also precomputed rainbow tables aren't so funny when you have gig wide columns instead of hash wide columns. For that alone its an entertaining idea.



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