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Exactly. Someone hacks your server, downloads your entire database containing email addresses and bcrypt-hashed passwords. They can plow through these at full-speed on their own system and will be limited to calculating a handful of hashes per second due to the computational intensity of calculating the bcrypt hash. Compare this to MD5 where they can generate tens of millions (or more) hashes per second, salt or no salt.



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