To Salt or Not To Salt? — Salting is not the only answer to securing passwords
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9 min readAug 9, 2018
It was recently released that LinkedIn failed to salt its passwords in the 2012 hack, and while salting would have increased the time it takes to crack a salted hash, it is merely a bump in the road if users use passwords such as “123456”.
Why? Because the salt is typically stored with the hashed password, so if the user selects…