* Mike Fratto (mfratto@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> > I thought the idea of the salt was to aid in expanding the
> > keyspace. Even though the salt is known (in traditional Unix
> > passwd/shadow/master.passwd databases,
>
> I am pretty sure the intent the salt is to make pre-computation of a
> dictionaries infeasable due to storage requirements. It doesn't really add
> to the keyspace because the salt is known and doesn't have to be guessed.
The salt isn't always known... I don't know how an unprivledged user on
a system w/ /etc/shadow could get at it anyway. I'm sure alot of people
would be very anxious to know if you know of a way to do that...
Stephen
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