security - Salting - the order of steps -
when salting password, correct way (or effective way)?
a. first hash password , hash hash of password salt this:
$password = "passwd"; $salt = "s0merndslt"; $password = sha1($password); $salty = sha1($password.$salt); b. take password , salt , hash them this:
$password = "passwd"; $salt = "s0merndslt"; $salty = sha1($password.$salt); my apologies if has been asked before not find answer specific part of salting on so.
in reality, either case.
however, example #1 provides time tradeoff (slightly) slow down brute force password finders.
with advent of gpus, salting passwords is not enough. gpu-backed brute-force password tool, when given set of passwords find, can accomplish short passwords in matter of minutes (or seconds).
this why tools or algorithms such bcrypt or pbkdf#2 exist: iterate hashing operation many times produce large workload, makes finding passwords hash "infeasible" on commodity hardware.
when in doubt, don't implement own password hash solution! use bcrypt or pbkdf#2.
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