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Message-ID: <20080203134631.GB4638@openwall.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 16:46:31 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: salt and passkey different ?
websiteaccess - you have obviously posted this without much thought -
you even failed to formulate your one-line question correctly, let alone
do a Google search on "passkey" to find out that it's not a generic
term. Please show more respect for other people's time next time you
post. Anyway, I'll address your question now that it is on the list:
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 04:41:59PM +0100, websiteaccess wrote:
> Is "salt" and "passkey" are same name for the same thing ?
No, in general they are not the same thing.
"salt" is a generic and widely-recognized term in cryptography. You
probably know what it means (roughly), but those who don't may refer to
my older posting on what salts are:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2005/12/18/1
and to other material referenced from that post, as well as to the
Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29
"passkey" is not a generic term, so it is meaningless outside of a
context. You may find it used when describing specific applications,
and it has entirely different meanings in different contexts. In fact,
I was not able to quickly find a context where "passkey" would be
synonymous to "salt".
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