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Yeah, yeah. I'm waiting to hear how you could conceivably brute force the password from that graph (and only that graph) if it had a random per-user salt.

I like the authentication system where you are guaranteed a nonce-bearing cookie identifying the user, but still forcing them to type their password. You know, just to be sure.

But I have an improvement on your system. Instead of a 16 bit salt, use a FIVE HUNDRED TWELVE bit salt. That's 32 times the saltiness! But just to trip evil hackers up, why don't you call that salt "PHPSESSIONID". I think that scheme is so salty that you only have to have users type their password just once!

Right, whatever, I was trying to have an actual conversation.

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