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Possible Data Breach Warning
grmcdorman:
Seriously? Salting isn't standard practice? It's more than 30 years old, if I recall correctly. Astonishing, I would never consider a password hash without a salt acceptable. Mind you, I've seen a few "roll your own" authentication handling in the past decade, even, that didn't even reach that level. (Roll your own security usually means you end up with none.)
JayUtah:
It's older than that. Back in the day, Unix stored its (hashed and salted) passwords in a world-readable file. And yes, people still do roll their own authentication, from what I've seen. But since my sample size isn't very large, I wouldn't put any statistical faith in it.
VQ:
--- Quote from: grmcdorman on April 27, 2021, 08:34:10 AM ---(I vaguely recall rainbow tables from when I watched some online courses on security; is that what they are?)
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Yes.
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