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My question is: How did Scott Helme end up with a password hash that features his own name?
by maltris 2y ago
My question is: How did Scott Helme end up with a password hash that features his own name?
- jgrahamc 2y agoHe didn't. If you break down that field you see: $2a$ 10$ Bho2e2ptPnFRJyJKIn5Bie hIDiEwhjfMZFVRM9fRCarKXkemA3Pxu ScottHelme 2a = bcrypt, 10 = 2^10 rounds, Bho2e2ptPnFRJyJKIn5Bie is the 22 character salt, hIDiEwhjfMZFVRM9fRCarKXkemA3Pxu is the 31 character hash value, and then there's ScottHelme. Best guess is that the archive.org folks just appended the user name to the stored hash. Maybe once upon a time they didn't have a username column in their table and this was a creative way of adding it.