It's one way to make it more difficult to guess somebody's
password, the salt and the password are encrypted together.
One example of usage is when two users have the same password,
they can not tell it both have the same by looking at the
passwords file.
raymundo
Bruno Negrao wrote:
Hi Raymundo,
in MD5 $1$ is always present, the 8 char string that folows is
the salt and the last 22 chars is the encrypted password.
What is this 'salt' thing?
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