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by goldenkey 3179 days ago
You cannot patent the use of a really long salt. Thats like patenting hashing of any string longer than 2000 chars. Its a trivial operation. They may think they have a patent but I trust it not to hold up. Go build your own 12 TB pool of data to use for salting hashes. I trust theyll never find out or have any ground to sue you if they do.