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in this scheme the hash effectively becomes your password, how is this helping anything ?



Did you read my whole post? With the salt attribute, a level based system can be implemented -- effectively a different hash would be required for more critical user-actions. That is, you'd need to re-type your password in the website to perform certain actions - but it would be the same password - just a different salt.




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