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		thomasptacek on Sept 17, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coding Horror: You're Probably Storing Passwords I... Your hash function needs to be slow, so that incremental cracking is infeasable. This is much more important than the length of your salt. No offense, but you should read the articles you comment on.

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thomasptacek on Sept 17, 2007 | [–]

Seriously, all three of the articles you're implicitly commenting on answer this question directly.

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