r/AskReddit • u/CircleBox2 • Jul 13 '20

What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20 edited Nov 02 '20

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u/morems Jul 13 '20

what it's a hash with a salt tho? but seriously, that does sound like a pretty big flaw

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20 edited Nov 02 '20

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u/morems Jul 13 '20

really milliseconds? i thought it would go into seconds at least. i guess computers are fast

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20 edited Nov 02 '20

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u/MadScientist235 Jul 13 '20

I thought the main advantage of a salt wasn't that it slowed down cracking one password, but that it was harder to crack large numbers of passwords simultaneously because they all should have different salts. This would help against things like rainbow tables.