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But all we care about is making it look secure for the hobbyist packet sniffers, right? (kidding) Although what about hardcoding a salt into the app to hash w
by dcosson 15y ago
But all we care about is making it look secure for the hobbyist packet sniffers, right? (kidding)
Although what about hardcoding a salt into the app to hash with?
- quesera 15y agoSalting wouldn't help. The data is collected to match it to other users' data, so the salt would have to be identical for all hashes for all users. An attacker would just precompute the dictionary with the hard coded salt, nullifying its purpose.