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The Reality of Modern GPU Brute-Force Attacks

Modern password cracking tools like hashcat can compute hundreds of billions of SHA-256 hashes per second on consumer GPU clusters. If your JWT secret is a 12-character English phrase, an offline attacker with access to a single leaked JWT can extract your secret in minutes.

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Is a 64-character hex secret sufficient for HS256?

Yes. 64 hexadecimal characters represent 32 bytes (256 bits) of entropy, exactly matching the SHA-256 output size mandated by RFC 7518.

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