On 4/19/08, Isaak Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That website mentions storing these hashes in the database just to make
> every password hash look different for every user, this only doesn't
> increase protection from brute force attacks therefor I advice you to use a
> double salt, a static one which is located outside of your web root and a
> random generated salt to ensure that the hash will be unique.

What exact attack scenario is this "static [salt] which is located
outside of your web root" supposed to protect against?

Mike

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Michael B Allen
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