Re: Values to use for a salt?

I think this is an example of strengthening the strongest link in the
chain, which is pretty pointless while weak links remain.  We're not going
to start having users use 8-bit passwords so the password search space
remains the same.  While extending the salt to 8-bits would make a
salt-space of 8^n instead of 7^n, which is a significant increase, 7^n is
still a huge salt space.  In any case, 7-bit vs 8-bit in no way addresses
the problem that salts solve, namely preventing pre-crypting of entire
dictionaries.


> Don't you think using extendedASCII set will dramatically increase the
> performance of any algorithm currently in use? Imagine what a pass like
> "|¤W-|[V.|1D-|`â-|Ë3-|%-|F0-|   " means for a cracker:  (selected from line
> 22 (I think...) from regedit.exe). Imagine using Unicode characters for keys
> ...
> Will you still need salt and others?