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Comment by Someone1234

I literally don't understand what it is you're getting at.

Password hashing has existed since at least the 1970s and until the 2000s salting wasn't common. While some hashing libraries do insist on you supplying a salt, it is still ultimately up to the application developer to generate and store the salt for later usage.

Therefore it is still common for an application developer to "worry about salts" even if just for storage and generation reasons.

Anyone using 3DES, MD5, or similar is likely vulnerable to timing attacks, and they're definitely still in the realm of a "password hash." Plus some wonderful developers hard code the salt (salt = "secret") which too could leave them vulnerable to timing attacks if an attacker knew what hashing algorithm and workfactor (e.g. the default) was in usage.

parent Someone1234 10 years ago

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