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		JoeAltmaier on July 17, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Password crack [affecting OAuth and OpenID] could ... The internet is Statistically consistent, which is all the attack needs.

Groxx on July 17, 2010 [–]

Even if you added a random up to one second pause, that's still "Statistically consistent", it just requires far more samples to detect millisecond variations.

Groxx on July 19, 2010 | [–]

(delayed, but) whups, my mistake. Read that wrong.

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