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Please elaborate for those of us who are not experts on cryptography.

• jlgreco 14y ago
  For one, salts prevent using rainbow tables. A random combination of hashes with tweakable knobs, or whatever his suggestion is, is just a complicated way of salting except you have the possibility of weakening your function if you don't know what you are doing (as another has already mentioned, the unexpected behaviour of combining DES should be remembered).