On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Derek Davis wrote:
> One possible reason is iterative hashes. Rather than hashing a
> password once, the system hashes it 1000 times. The user won't notice
[...]
I think you've got the idea about salts. But iterative hashing is mostly
unrelated; H(H(H(H(H(H(...(x))))))) is simply a way of building a much slower
hash function H'(x). Salts add the same work multiplier to either H or H'.
-J
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