PHP - Saltes Hashes & How to get the most out of your salts

Submitted by Adobe Labs » This tutorial will help you learn how to "salt" your MD5 hashes to achieve a higher degree of security. This tutorial teaches you not only how to salt, but best salting practices to achieve a more secure hash
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zachholmanJune 26, 2007
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Salting passwords is almost always a good idea for websites. I mean, just a couple months ago reddit got hacked into and had passwords spilled about because of it. It's just good practice, just in case you ever do get broken into. (And yes, Good-Tutorials is salted out the wazoo, if you were wondering.)

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