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		martinko on Sept 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Dropbox securely stores your passwords > Also, I don't think any security would be overkill Thats just nonsense. After a certain point, more security makes little sense. Would you advocate 5 trillion rounds of sha512 for each password?

mseebach on Sept 21, 2016 [–]

If 5 trillion rounds of sha512 is how many you can get in 100ms, then that's the right number.

In other words, 5 trillion rounds isn't overkill, it's impractical.

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