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Re:Project Euler Returns by alexforster on Friday August 15, 2014 @10:12PM (#8185174)
The salt for the email could be a CRC, or a Fisher-Yates, or any of a dozen other novel one-way transformations.
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Re:Project Euler Returns by stouset on Saturday August 16, 2014 @03:29AM (#8185638)
You do not appear to understand the purpose of a salt. A salt should never be derived from the data it is to be used with. The entire purpose of a salt is to cause two identical inputs to a hash function to produce distinct outputs.
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