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		mattlondon on Dec 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No Cookie for You If the salt is a random 64bit number (for example) then "finding out" the salt is not trivial.

wpietri on Dec 17, 2020 [–]

And unless I'm missing something, it seems easy to add plenty of bits to the salt until it's no longer practical to reverse.

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