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nopar8 on April 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Enough with the Salts: Updates on Secure Password ...

I am extremely ignorant about this topic. But I don't think that's how it works. Can someone else weigh in please.

cheapsteak on April 2, 2015 [–]

unsalted:

username | sha256 hash john123 | ef92b778bafe771e89245b89ecbc08a44a4e166c06659911881f383d4473e94f joe456 | ef92b778bafe771e89245b89ecbc08a44a4e166c06659911881f383d4473e94f

salted:

username | salt | sha256 hash john123 | ponies | 98d4c01710b2b775e41b0bf4984f0cec7621ae1dfc4304047b196af46ed589b2 joe456 | beards | 0f7c74279db5daa1f4de41cc7f6acc94651da754c41675dcde8dcf151d14f5bf

their passwords are all `password123`

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