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There is a chance that if your DB is compromised, your code is as well. Additionally, what if you want to change your work factor, how would you handle doing that? If you upgrade your server environment and then all of a sudden realize that your hashing algorithm only take .1 seconds, when it used to take .5 you might want to change it.



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