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Preventing dictionary attacks against hashed passwords [duplicate]
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How to securely hash passwords?
I have a website and on that website I use SHA-256 and salt my user's passwords. What I'm doing right now is padding each letter of the ...
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Why do most hashing functions produce hashes that have characters a-f 0-9?
This is something I never understood about hashing functions. I know that algorithms like whirlpool and blowfish both produce outputs that don't follow this pattern, but why is it that most do? Is ...
