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Comment by beachstartup

14 years ago

yeah if you simply know what a password is, of course it's compromised, but you're not supposed to easily break a salted hashed password.

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icebraining  14 years ago

Salts only really protect against rainbow tables; if the attacker is willing to use a dictionary or brute force attack against a single password, they're not of much use.

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