Top "Salt" questions

Cryptography function that takes random bits and a string (typically a password) and uses a one-way hash to provide a new string that can be used for authentication without providing access to the original string.

convert plain-text password to MD5 salted hash

For example under FreeBSD passwords are stored in /etc/master.passwd like this: $1$7wtGfwgp$772bEQInetnJKUNtLM0Xt/ The password I used …

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How can I generate a vBulletin password salt for the md5 hash while importing user data?

I'm transferring users from my old database to a vBulletin database. I want a script to do this as it'll …

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Hash 'hashcat': Token length exception

hashcat64.exe hashcat -m0 -a0 crackme.txt password.txt Device #1: Intel's OpenCL runtime(GPU only) is currently broken. We are …

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Do I need a "random salt" once per password or only once per database?

Further to my previous question about salted passwords in PHP/MySQL, I have another question regarding salts. When someone says "…

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Spring Security 3: Salting password issue

I have got an simple application made in which I am able to register users and authenticate them. I've got …

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should i use urandom or openssl_random_pseudo_bytes?

I am developing a site in php 5.4 and i was wondering which is better to use to gen a random …

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Hash param is missing in payU payment gateway android integration

I need to integrate payU payment gateway in my android app. But when app is trying to to get hash …

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PHP Sessions + Useragent with salt

It keeps running in my mind the last couple of days, but I read some articles about how to make …

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Is time() a good salt?

I'm looking at some code that I have not written myself. The code tries to hash a password with SHA512 …

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What is the correct format for a blowfish salt using PHP's crypt?

I have read the information provided on the PHP Manual Entry for crypt(), but I find myself still unsure of …

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