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Re:Slack was hacked by spullara on Friday March 27, 2015 @02:44PM (#9278269)
The pepper is being used as an encryption key in that example rather than using hashing.
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Re:Slack was hacked by JimmaDaRustla on Friday March 27, 2015 @03:00PM (#9278363)
In pacofvf's example, you are correct.

But, the original example is hashing the password. No encryption involved. So what makes anyone think that they can reverse a hash?

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