http://www.lukerodgers.ca a celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:35:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.lukerodgers.ca/2009/02/securing-passwords-in-your-database/ http://www.lukerodgers.ca/2009/02/securing-passwords-in-your-database/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:11:33 +0000 Luke Rodgers http://www.lukerodgers.ca/?p=513 There’s a good post at the Errata Security blog (The Importance of Being Canonical) that discusses going behind encrypting passwords in your database, to appending or prepending random characters (“salts”) to your password hashes, effectively neutralizing a common way of cracking encrypted passwords.

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