When in doubt, try Google. I just did, and quickly discovered that surfing for "salted" is much more productive than surfing for "unsalted". Start with this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN 37069-2526 * USA t: +1.617.614.4503 * e: bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com * w: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 3:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FYI LinkedIn passwords hacked On 7 Jun 2012 14:28:43 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:55:51 +0200, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: > >>Having password or not is not matter of topic of IBM-MAIN. >>There are really a lot of things which do have passwords and are >>absolutely unrelated to mainframes. >>We are here to discuss mainframe issues, not password problems on >>popular portal(s). >. . . > >Yet some smug mainframe workers could learn something from this. Such as, >storing hashed but unsalted passwords is not such a good idea (and, yes, I >have seen that done on a mainframe). > Would you mind explaining further what unsalted passwords are? Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
