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by beachstartup 4822 days ago
yeah if you simply know what a password is, of course it's compromised, but you're not supposed to easily break a salted hashed password.
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Salts only really protect against rainbow tables; if the attacker is willing to use a dictionary or brute force attack against a single password, they're not of much use.