Thanks, you've really cleared things up for me.
It's got me thinking of using the random salt sting as some type of private key that, once generated, is encrypted and emailed to the user. Then it needs to be stored locally and part of the login in form, to the website, will ask the user for the location of the encrytped salt string along with their password.

Anyway, I digress...apart from that ^^ mad idea, what way would you recommend for moderate/good security. That is, if you were implementing it. Would you store randomly generated salt in the database or just settle on one secret salt (that will need to be visible in the code)?

In reply to Re^4: SaltedDigest Salt? by packetstormer
in thread SaltedDigest Salt? by packetstormer

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