Salt increases cracking time a little bit, but the more important purpose of salt is to prevent dictionary attacks. A dictionary generated using one specific salt (or no salt) is useless against...
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Salt increases cracking time a little bit, but the more important purpose of salt is to prevent dictionary attacks. A dictionary generated using one specific salt (or no salt) is useless against...
At some point this becomes pointless because the passwords are hashed before being stored, which reduces their maximum entropy. A 256-bit hash (it doesn't matter if its salted) has only 256 bits of...