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     They are slow.  As the amount of data is so small, this is the only
     way to make brute-forcing passwords hard.
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     They use a random value, called the <em class="firstterm">salt</em>, so that users
     having the same password will have different encrypted passwords.
     This is also an additional defense against reversing the algorithm.
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     They include the algorithm type in th