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Four cents to deanonymize: Companies reverse hashed email addresses (freedom-to-tinker.com)
2 points by myle on April 15, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Nothing a little SALT cant fix. If you salt the password with a secret key, then it is no longer a guessable hashed email. The SALT/key can then be passed up the chain or authority doubling as a chain of custody. But let's be real, few programmers will take that much care to protect ones email.




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