18 Mar
2014
18 Mar
'14
8:10 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 09:49:36AM -0500, espeake@oreillyauto.com wrote:
I have been doing some reading on the salted hash and I know that I never setup a salt for servers. We are doing some documentation for our security people and the question came up about the salt and if it differs for each user, or if the same salt is used?
The basic idea of a salted hash is that the salt is different for every user so that a rainbow table of hashes is only useful for a single password.
Usually, the salt is randomized when a hash is generated.
Greetings Marc
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