RE: password cracking: one char at a time.

["Aditya Deshmukh" <aditya.deshmukh () online gateway strangled net>]

 see below .

> > > I was wondering if is at all possible to discover a password one
> > > char at a time.

<niped> 

> > If the hash is of good cryptographic level, if someone steals
> > the hashes he won't get an easily time finding collisions.
> >
> > And to avoid two users to have the same hash if they use
> > the same password, salt bits are used (that's what Unix does).
> >  
>
> What are salt bits?

Salty ! Here they are random numbers to padded and encrypted with 
actual password to make brute forcing difficult


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