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Re:No Cookie for You by mattlondon on Thursday December 17, 2020 @03:38PM (#25460096)
If the salt is a random 64bit number (for example) then "finding out" the salt is not trivial.
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Re:No Cookie for You by wpietri on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:25PM (#25461325)
And unless I'm missing something, it seems easy to add plenty of bits to the salt until it's no longer practical to reverse.
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