Re:Gab Has Been Breached
by tptacek on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:28AM
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Salts have virtually nothing to do with the security of password hashes. Unix password hashes have essentially always be salted; they're cracked with dictionary generators, not with rainbow tables.
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Re:Gab Has Been Breached
by SAI_Peregrinus on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:45AM
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As you know (but others might not) salts aren't (just) for stopping rainbow tables. They also mean that two users picking the same password doesn't result in identical hashes. That's often a more meaningful protection than stopping rainbow tables.