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> Salting and hashing isn't going to help you much if you're prone to using one-character passwords

Why not? OK I'm no cryptographer, so I'm probably talking out of my arse but why not store a random salt PER user, and the hash of (password + salt)? To an attacker, a one character password will be as hard to crack as a complex one.

parent 1_player 10 years ago

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