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Password Storage & Cracking

Why MD5/SHA-256 are catastrophic for passwords, how bcrypt and Argon2id actually work internally, what makes a hash GPU-resistant or memory-hard, how rainbow tables die to salts, the economics of cracking on consumer GPUs vs cloud rigs vs ASICs, and the full hashcat workflow attackers actually use.

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