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		saurik on March 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slack was hacked This doesnt make any sense: the goal of this work factor is to make things slower for the opponent, not my own servers. My estimation of the computational power available to my opponent has nothing to do with how large the web servers I chose to use happen to be.

ntucker on March 30, 2015 [–]

The recommendation is to make it as slow as you can tolerate, which is based on how fast your web servers are.

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