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Moin,
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 06:21, Brion Vibber wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Jens Frank wrote:
We'll create some new indexes that should improve site performance. To do this, we need to set the wikis to read only at 3 a.m. UTC (5a.m. Berlin/Paris, about 10 p.m. Chicago). The downtime will take about 2 hours.
While we're on this, that would be a good time to run the password hash salting.
Done.
The other indexes are still building, we'll be back online soon enough... :)
Arg, I was not fast enough. I just wanted to say that I am shocked that wikipedia didn't already salt the passwords.
And in addition, I hope that now not only the passwords are salted, but actually include more measures against brute-forcing, like hashing the password 10000 times, or using something stronger than MD5.
But I fear it is again too late for adding that :/
Best wishes,
Tels
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