Re: Is their much benefit In using a second hidden salt

2010-12-07 Thread andy
I see, I really had not give much though to the points that you make. I guess the secret salt really does create some possible inconvenience and should be feature left up to developers to implement as you say. Thanks for the input. On Dec 7, 6:37 pm, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:27

Re: Is their much benefit In using a second hidden salt

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:27 PM, andy wrote: > However I'm a bit curious about the significance of adding a second > salt to the password before it is hashed and then using the regular > per-user salt. Currently my opinion is that their is added benefit > since it make dictionary attacks more chall