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Re:The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords by aamar on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @08:55PM (#2010803)
If you are generating a per-password salt, that won't work. In order to find prior occurrences of a given password, you would have to hash the password for every salt value that you've ever used. And since you're using BCrypt[1], that will be very slow.

[1] http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

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