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Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

Posted Nov 20, 2007 18:21 UTC (Tue) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263)
In reply to: Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability by drag
Parent article: Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

The main purpose of salts is to combat things like rainbow tables.


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Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

Posted Nov 20, 2007 19:12 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

The main purpose of rainbow tables is to combat unsalted web apps ;-)

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