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CompTIA Security+ study material · question 554 of 611
What does key stretching achieve against an offline attacker?
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Answer: C. It makes each guess cost real time and memory
Deliberately slow derivation is what turns billions of cheap guesses into an economically infeasible campaign.
Source: OWASP Password Storage Cheat Sheet (OWASP) — OWASP Password Storage Cheat Sheet › Using Work Factors