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Re:Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked a... by valleyer on Thursday June 09, 2016 @03:27AM (#11868046)
The salt is typically stored with the hashed value. Its purpose is simply to prevent you from being able to use a single dictionary attack on all users.
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