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dmak on June 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: League of Legends database compromised, passwords ...

In short, it is BEST to HASH with a salt. Hash with a salt and don't use symmetrical key encryption methods.

drivebyacct2 on June 9, 2012 [–]

Yup, always hash with a salt (or use an algorithm that does it for you). I added another example below for this guy. And yes, definitely don't use symmetric encryption.

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