09-01-2009, 03:30 PM
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#14 (permalink)
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The Wanderer
Join Date: Sep 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Village Idiot
Packing it merely scrambles the value in a known (and reversible) way before hashing it. This does not add any more security than adding a simple value to the hash because the values can't be reverse engineered either way.
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True, but still it's kind of better than using a-zA-Z0-9 in your salt. I mean, try to brute-force a hash with a bit with the ASCII value of 20. But still... there is a big risk there is a collision with a more simple salt. |
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