Re:How the Bible and YouTube are fueling the next frontier o...
by agwa on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @02:23PM
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Chances are extremely high that if an attacker gets the hashes, they also get the salts. Since knowing the salt is necessary to authenticate against the hashed password, any application that has access to the hash also has access to the salt, making the salt just as likely to be compromised as the hash. A hash with an unknown salt is just as useless to a legitimate application as it is to an attacker, so there's really no point in trying to store salts "separately."
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