Re^5: Creating a rainbow table for a ten-digit number: Advice?

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Ok, so there exists a secret string. Don't use it as the salt to a hashing function, use it as the key to an encryption function. This whole hashing thing is nonsense.

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Re^6: Creating a rainbow table for a ten-digit number: Advice? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 12, 2010 at 01:42 UTC
I completely agree that encryption is better than hashing. But hashing might be available where encryption isn't.	[reply]

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