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Originally Posted by
AimyThomas
Hi,
I've been reading up on using a salt value when creating a password to make it more secure, what I can't get my head round is how do you remember this salt value?
You don't; you just test a lot of salts. That's why salts are small, to make that tolerable.
The point is to add a lot more computational work to anyone trying to brute-force a hash. They can't just compare a list of known hashes to a shadow file.