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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2014-05-26 22:42:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2014-05-26 22:42:29 (GMT) |
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link to wikipedia description of cryptographic salt
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diff --git a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst index 661338e..cc982f6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ Key Derivation Function Key derivation and key stretching algorithms are designed for secure password hashing. Naive algorithms such as ``sha1(password)`` are not resistant against brute-force attacks. A good password hashing function must be tunable, slow, and -include a salt. +include a `salt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29>`_. .. function:: pbkdf2_hmac(name, password, salt, rounds, dklen=None) |