Lowering the bcrypt cost lowers the time required to encrypt a password, at the cost of increasing the speed at which an attacker can try to crack the password. This is an acceptable tradeoff for improving performance of running tests. This shaves about 5 minutes off of the admin tests.
Lowering the bcrypt cost lowers the time required to encrypt a password, at the cost of increasing the speed at which an attacker can try to crack the password. This is an acceptable tradeoff for improving performance of running tests. This shaves about 5 minutes off of the admin tests.
Hat tip to Jeff Yucis for discovery.