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Re:Coding Horror: You're Probably Storing Passwords Incorrectly by thomasptacek on Monday September 17, 2007 @12:22PM (#55747)
Your hash function needs to be slow, so that incremental cracking is infeasable. This is much more important than the length of your salt. No offense, but you should read the articles you comment on.
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Re:Coding Horror: You're Probably Storing Passwords Incorrectly by thomasptacek on Monday September 17, 2007 @12:39PM (#55758)
Seriously, all three of the articles you're implicitly commenting on answer this question directly.