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Salting Passwords in plain sight

Interesting method of creating a unique salt that can only be derived from the password being encrypted. If you used a salt created by an algorithm based on something known, an attacked who had access to the DB and the salting method could devise a cracking mechanism.

But with this, even if you have both of those you would still not be able to crack the password without trying every possible password against itself – a feat that approaches impossibilty.

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