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I apologize if my question was unclear; that's almost certainly because of a lack of expertise on my side.

On one end of the spectrum, I envision the same salt used for every user, allowing for the easy and effective creation of rainbow tables. On the other end, I envision unique salts with many bits of entropy for each user, making rainbow tables technologically infeasible.



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