On Dec 10, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Stephen Russell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Never thought of it like that but what if a hacker uses a password that is
> already there?  They get it all.

        Only if they guess the correct salt. With unsalted passwords you would 
be correct (hence the wisdom of salting).


-- Ed Leafe




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