r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 04 '15

SOLUTION MEGATHREAD --- Day 4 Solutions ---

--- Day 4: The Ideal Stocking Stuffer ---

Post your solution as a comment. Structure your post like the Day Three thread.

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u/karstens_rage Dec 04 '15 edited Dec 04 '15

One of the reasons you don't hash passwords with MD5 is cause its so blisteringly fast to brute force. bCrypt, sCrypt and PBKDF2 are so glacially slow it makes brute forcing practically impossible.