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Re:The False Allure of Hashing for Anonymization by aflagatopamoon on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:57PM (#16971529)
This is called a pepper:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography)

If you read the article above, you'll see that you still need a salt, since users with very simple passwords will have the same hash: crack one, and you can crack the others for free.

Re:The False Allure of Hashing for Anonymization by bglusman on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:05PM (#17048979)
Yeah I should have been clear this wasn't for passwords at all, ever, this was/is only for other kinds of PII