It wouldn't, but it's a Bad Plan not to have per-user salt, so the circumstances where you'd have the passwords but not the salts that go with them would be... odd.
Thanks to you and astine, I just learned today about per-user salts. I thought that you only needed a site-wide salt and after reading on the topic, I now understand why it's better to have a per-user salt stored in the db.
I was also confused by these frameworks (e.g., Django) that ask you for a secret key and I thought that the secret key was a site-wide salt. Fortunately, they knew better than me ;-)
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It wouldn't, but it's a Bad Plan not to have per-user salt, so the circumstances where you'd have the passwords but not the salts that go with them would be... odd.
Thanks to you and astine, I just learned today about per-user salts. I thought that you only needed a site-wide salt and after reading on the topic, I now understand why it's better to have a per-user salt stored in the db.
I was also confused by these frameworks (e.g., Django) that ask you for a secret key and I thought that the secret key was a site-wide salt. Fortunately, they knew better than me ;-)