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Re:Project Euler Returns by SkyMarshal on Friday August 15, 2014 @01:51PM (#8183305)
A little off topic, but is there any reason to still be talking about salted hashes when we have bcrypt and scrypt these days? Seems like an anachronism.
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Re:Project Euler Returns by sp332 on Friday August 15, 2014 @03:46PM (#8183789)
An attacker can pre-compute hashes of common passwords for common settings of bcrypt/scrypt. With a salt, they have to start from scratch every time.
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Re:Project Euler Returns by jgeralnik on Friday August 15, 2014 @04:00PM (#8183866)
bcrypt and scrypt are always salted (it's part of their algorithms - there is not such thing as unsalted bcrypt/scrypt)
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Re:Project Euler Returns by stouset on Friday August 15, 2014 @04:41PM (#8184069)
No. No, they cannot.
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