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by StavrosK 5477 days ago
> Salted hashes are a straight-up vulnerability.

I find this a bit of a misnomer. I understand what you mean in context, of course, but, strictly speaking, bcrypt is a "hash", and "salted" is always good.

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What was your goal with this comment?
Clarification. Right now we have

> Salted hashes are a straight-up vulnerability. -- tptacek

"Salted or unsalted versions of common hash functions (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3) are not to be used to store passwords."