Re: Is MD5 still considered safe for storing application user passwords?

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Hi,

> Correst me if I'm wrong... but assuming that your salt string is hard coded
> into the program, with a MD5 a password + salt is no more secure then a
> simple password?

Well if you store the hash by itself, if an attacker gets hold of your
hashes they could be brute forced. However with the addition of a salt
it would be largely pointless since you need both pieces (?) of
information (password plus salt) to generate the hash.

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Richard Heyes

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