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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Anti-spam for goose
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 13:16:20
Message-Id: 9b9750c3a10ba4bca0164eb322cc32f264c93009.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Anti-spam for goose by Kent Fredric
1 On Fri, 2020-05-22 at 01:09 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On Thu, 21 May 2020 14:25:00 +0200
3 > Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > That's why I said salted hash.
6 >
7 > Even a salted hash becomes a trivial joke when the input data you're
8 > hashing has a *total* entropy of only 32bits.
9 >
10 > You at very least need a unique salt per hash, or you only have to
11 > expose the salt to create a rainbow table for the whole dataset.
12
13 Isn't the whole point of salted hash to use unique salts?
14
15 Nevertheless, it's still near-trivial task.
16
17 --
18 Best regards,
19 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Anti-spam for goose Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>