The point is that a salt would essentially give you a constant speed of cracking versus a speed that scaled with the size of the dataset you have. For example, the guy in the article cracked 10,000-ish passwords in 16…
Every time figure quoted in the article (eg "Retrieved 2700 passwords in 2 minutes 30 seconds") would have been up to 16,000x larger if a salt had been used since a separate hash would need to be computed for each…
The point is that a salt would essentially give you a constant speed of cracking versus a speed that scaled with the size of the dataset you have. For example, the guy in the article cracked 10,000-ish passwords in 16…
Every time figure quoted in the article (eg "Retrieved 2700 passwords in 2 minutes 30 seconds") would have been up to 16,000x larger if a salt had been used since a separate hash would need to be computed for each…