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In the case of salts, the article admits "Don’t get me wrong, this does make it significantly harder to attack a leaked database to unmask every user..." So sa
by jwilliams 8y ago
In the case of salts, the article admits "Don’t get me wrong, this does make it significantly harder to attack a leaked database to unmask every user..."
So salts definitely do help. And if you chose your salt well (e.g. global fixed/rotating plus local/temporal) you significantly increase your protection compared to not using a salt at all.