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Sometimes the salt is stored with the password. I sometimes see having a hardcoded salt referred to as 'security by obscurity', but considering that many attack
by roel_v 15y ago
Sometimes the salt is stored with the password. I sometimes see having a hardcoded salt referred to as 'security by obscurity', but considering that many attacks result in just a database dump, not giving attackers access to (at least part of) the hash is a useful security layer.