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366: ‘Measure Seven Times, Cut Once’, With Glenn Fleishman

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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The SHA-2 Algorithm Is a One-Way Cryptographic Function

Hashing is a deep cryptographic thing, but it's like the number of rounds of hashing you do on a, on a password. So one password has its approach, LastPass, others have their approaches. You can wind up if you haven't updated it, people have been finding as they look through their settings at LastPass that they are set to, you know, 5,000 iterations where LastPass now, I think the current setting is 100,000 and 100 iterations.

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