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Question
How can an adversary utilize a stolen database of unsalted password hashes?
Options
- ADecrypt them to find the dear text passwords
- BCompare the hashed output of guessed passwords with them
- CAuthenticate with the service associated with the on-line database
- DReverse engineer them to find the encryption key
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