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Message-ID: <548A419A.4040401@defuse.ca> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:15:06 -0700 From: Taylor Hornby <havoc@...use.ca> To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net Subject: Re: [PHC] How important is salting really? On 12/11/2014 05:58 PM, Bitweasil . wrote: > A factor of N slowdown in cracking, where N is the number of unique salts > in the uncracked list of hashes. > On Dec 11, 2014 4:57 PM, "Marsh Ray" <maray@...rosoft.com> wrote: >> >> (If this chance is small, then what do we gain by salting?) Another reason is that without a salt, the attacker can pre-compute lookup tables before they get access to the hashes. In terms of organized crime that means there'll be large-scale cracking services that can invest in creating MASSIVE rainbow tables and make a profit selling access to them. With salt, that entire effort has to be re-done for each breach (and hash within a breach). -- Taylor Hornby
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