If I enter a password wrong thrice, the system locks me out. How are hackers able to attempt millions of combinations of passwords without the system locking them out?
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A hash is how the password is stored. There’s an algorithm that takes your username and password, then combines them together to produce a meaningless jumble of symbols. This is fairly secure because a hash alone can’t be reverse engineered.
The bad thing about a hash is if you know the username that combined with the password and know the type of cryptographic method used, you can try your own passwords as many times as you like until you get a hit
So if the website is bad and has an easy to read database of usernames and the corresponding hash they can brute force the passwords easily
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