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GPU accelerated MD5 is a thing and I assure you it's a lot closer to zero than you'd think.

High-end FPGAs can smash through SHA1 at rates of billions per second and MD5 is not even that complicated. A million rounds is not as hard as Bcrypt cranked up to a sufficiently robust level.



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