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Originally Posted by ratinox
Once they identify how the salts are generated they can use this to generate custom tables, which is orders of magnitude faster than brute force and doesn't require infinite storage.
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I've just reread this, and don't get the point you're trying to make. If you've got hold of the passwd file, or whatever, with the salted hashes, you already know all the salts - they're sitting right there in plain text. What would knowing the salt generation algorithm gain you? (Genuine question!)