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RyanZAG on Feb 15, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Important Kickstarter Security Notice

Thanks for the info, salted+multiple digest means this isn't nearly as bad as it could be.

Any chance you could give us information on what kind of attack vector was used?

tptacek on Feb 15, 2014 [–]

That depends on the value of "multiple". If multiple means thousands, that's one thing; if it means tens, it's pretty bad.

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