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by Javantea_ 3098 days ago
No. A feature of a good PRNG is that it should not be predictable. If the salt is weak enough to be cracked, that PRNG can be reversed and predicted.
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The salt is the seed. Presumably initialized with /dev/random or whichever system entropy source is available. Any PRNG is weak if the seed is weak