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Originally Posted by jlalt Why to put a salt when its plain text and the hacker can access it easily? The thing I never understood....

Because the salt alone is useless for the hacker. Even if he can read the salt, it will avail him little.
Instead of looking at pre-made tables with the common passwords, he is forced to recompute a dictionary of hashes made of common words with the salt attached to it.

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Originally Posted by jlalt And if its a database only hack if you made a random hashing method isn't seifer in this situation instead of using popular hash methods?

An example: Linux is open-source, so everyone can see its source code; still it is much more secure than windows.