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I was describing it in order to explain the general idea; not to explain the exact algorithm. The wikipedia article does a better job at that than I could do, but since he asked the question after the link to the wikipedia article I assumed that what he wanted was a simple explanation of what the difference is between just SHA(password) and PBKDF(password).


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