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Where in the original example was encryption involved? The salt and pepper were only ever used in a hashing algorithm.
by JimmaDaRustla 12y ago
Where in the original example was encryption involved? The salt and pepper were only ever used in a hashing algorithm.
- typedweb 12y agoThe pepper is the key to the encryption, not a hashing algorithm.
- JimmaDaRustla 12y agoThanks for just ignoring my question - THERE IS NO ENCRYPTION IN THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE, so WHY are you restating that encryption is involved at all? Straight from the original artical: hashed_password = scrypt(password, salt + pepper) or hashed_password = scrypt(scrypt(password, salt),pepper) Absolutely zero encryption going on here. Therefore, no ability to "decrypt" the pepper result. The pepper IS NOT a key for encryption. Period.