On 10/11/06, Scott Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You should definitely use a salted hash as the number and size of rainbow
table-generating projects out there is growing.

The wikipedia article is pretty illuminating on this subject for those
of us who only have a vague idea what a rainbow table is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table

From the article: "A rainbow table is ineffective against one-way
hashes that include salts."

Great thread, everyone.

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Nick Zadrozny
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