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.
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.
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.