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Thanks for the enlightenment. I have to agree that once you have access to the db, salt or not doesn't really matter security wise. But at the end, it really boils down to: Do you have a strong password? If yes, even md5 is "somewhat" safe. But to be fair, I don't know how big the rainbow tables are.. and could become.

For instance, I've got lots of password with over 20 characters mixed with upper/lower cases with a few symbols in it. (i.e. Seems hard but: phzb0xis@mynickname.on.hackernews.com is already pretty long and hard to crack but still easy for me to type/remember), btw that is not my password ;) I wonder if I encrypt that with MD5.. Could it be contained in a rainbow table somewhere?

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