[Haskell-cafe] Password hashing

Bit Connor bit at mutantlemon.com
Wed Oct 29 09:32:51 EDT 2008


On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Michał Pałka <michal.palka at poczta.fm> wrote:
> It's a good idea to salt your passwords before hashing, though. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)

What can be used for generating a random salt? Is System.Random secure enough?

Thanks


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