On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 06:52:42AM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote:
> In this particular scheme, it appears ('foo','salt') has the same hash
> as ('foosalt',''). In a serious application, hopefully the wheel
> wouldn't be reinvented in this way, but some well-studied, thoroughly
> scrutinized approach would be used. :) But as a toy example it works,
> sure!
The point was to illustrate how a password and salt work to create a unique
hash. Sure, I could have covered all the details on the specific
/etc/shadow implementation, but then we wouldn't see the forest from the
trees.
At any event, point taken.
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