Re: Windows passwords - salts?

Hello James,

What do you mean with salts?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Hi all,

Just a quick question, another admin at my work struck up a
conversation about password strength in Windows, stating that salts
were not used. This came as a bit of a surprise, as I had never looked
into the technicalities of the windows password scheme.

Can somebody elaborate on whether this is true, and why salts are not
used? Any specific tech references would be nice for the train trip
home.

Cheers,

James



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