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the point of adding a salt to the passwords is not to make decrypting the individual passwords harder - the salts are kept in plaintext - but to make it impossi
by ent 16y ago
the point of adding a salt to the passwords is not to make decrypting the individual passwords harder - the salts are kept in plaintext - but to make it impossible to prevent the use of rainbow tables. that is, having longer salts will only make it harder for finding out all the people with the same password.
- rorrr 16y agoThat's assuming hacker knows the salt, which is not always the case.