"1 in 256 times *any* password might get you in" – MySQL authentication disaster

What if your authentication system itself were at fault? You could have the hardest-to-guess password, salted and hashed thousands of times, and still be at risk.

That’s what happened to MySQL and MariaDB.

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Story added 13. June 2012, content source with full text you can find at link above.