I've seen the misconception that a salt is a fixed string before, I don't know where people get that from. You don't pick a salt and use it site-wide, you pick a different salt for each thing you're encrypting, so the standard salting mechanism is more secure than this
Can you cite this? I think you're making it up. It makes no sense for people early on to have misunderstood salts so badly. That kind of misunderstanding takes years to develop.
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I've seen the misconception that a salt is a fixed string before, I don't know where people get that from. You don't pick a salt and use it site-wide, you pick a different salt for each thing you're encrypting, so the standard salting mechanism is more secure than this
Early on, people used fixed string salts. Some people learned and advanced.
Can you cite this? I think you're making it up. It makes no sense for people early on to have misunderstood salts so badly. That kind of misunderstanding takes years to develop.
I am mistaken. (Faulty memory.) The early Unix salts were random, though they were only two characters.