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It's ambiguous, I read it as the hashes being different for each customer out of a mistaken assumption that no two customers have the same password. A salt isn'
by solatic 8y ago
It's ambiguous, I read it as the hashes being different for each customer out of a mistaken assumption that no two customers have the same password. A salt isn't really a "key" for a hash function, because it isn't going to tell you by itself what the original unhashed value is, and neither will it by itself give you the final hash.
- KMag 8y agoBut a salt is a key in the same sense as a MAC key (such as HMAC key).