• Rin@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Paywall. Also, passwords and RSA are two different things.

      • ferret@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        Reversing hashing algos is what people mean when they talk about quantum computers cracking passwords / encryption, though.

        • frezik@midwest.social
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          11 months ago

          No, they mean breaking RSA. The industry standard methods of storing passwords are resistant to QC attacks. Passwords could be broken while being passed between client and server under existing algorithms, but not the databases they’re stored in.