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| Edit | Post #290700 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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A: Should a salt be stored in the same database as the hash? The other answers are correct, but over complicate things. Suppose you have a database with 1,000,000 email addresses and password hashes, 20% of whom are idiots and have used "password123" as their password. Without salts - the attacker calculates the hash of "password123" once, compares it ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |