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Re:Hack of Cupid Media dating website exposes 42 million pla... by livnev on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @08:41AM (#6767860)
What about determining the salt from the domain for the given login? (perhaps slightly more refined than that to mitigate cases like *.google.com)
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Re:Hack of Cupid Media dating website exposes 42 million pla... by thatthatis on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @08:55AM (#6767947)
I think that's right. It would also need some ability to add mappings like "when I log in from gmail.com, hash like it is google.com"
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