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Expand Up @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ To Verify a password against a hash (assuming you've stored the hash and retriev
BCrypt.Verify("my password", passwordHash);
```

This implementation on hashing will generate a salt automatically for you with the work factor (2^number of rounds) set to 10 (which matches the default across most implementation and is currently viewed as a good level of security/risk).
This implementation on hashing will generate a salt automatically for you with the work factor (2^number of rounds) set to 11 (which matches the default across most implementation and is currently viewed as a good level of security/risk).

To save you the maths a small table covering the iterations is provided below. The minimum allowed in this library is 4 for compatibility, the maximum is 31 (at 31 your processor will be wishing for death).

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