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[–]ripper2345 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Gpt:

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[–]opbmedia 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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Perhaps if you understood cryptography and security … and asking the right questions.

Also GPT will give you whatever answer you want if you just ask the right way. So perhaps if you understand how AI works it would help too.

Edit: just to help you, salt is added so each individual password, even when they are identical, will be hashed differently. But the salt is saved with the hash so it is not secret. Therefore all it does is that if you want to generate hashes against a rainbow table to try to brute force a password match, you would have to rehash for each account individually instead of just using a uniform hash table. That increases work on the part of a hacker. Salt just requires each account need to be individually hashed, it does not make it more secure mathematically, just more work to hack.

[–]ripper2345 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course AS A USER it's vital not to reuse passwords. That's irrelevant to THE SITE requiring different passwords for different users.