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Re:Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked a... by andruby on Thursday June 09, 2016 @03:54AM (#11868128)
The salt is usually stored with the hash. It prevents using pre-calculated rainbow tables. Without a salt you can check a password guess against all passwords. With a salt you can only test the guess against a single password.
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