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Salting Passwords in DB or Across the Wire?

By iCan via alexking.org
Submitted On March 19, 2010

One of the sessions at SxSW talked about the importance of salting passwords in the database in case an attacker gains database access. The assertion is that hashing in the database is not enough, that the hash needs to be combined with salt. This got folks (including me) thinking and talking about this again, which is a Good Thing.

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