Timeline for How big should salt be?

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Mar 17, 2017 at 13:14	history	edited	CommunityBot		replaced http://security.stackexchange.com/ with https://security.stackexchange.com/
S May 1, 2015 at 16:47	history	suggested	IBam	CC BY-SA 3.0	changed title
May 1, 2015 at 16:37	review	Suggested edits
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Apr 27, 2014 at 17:16	comment	added	Alicja Kario		@DarcyThomas an implementation of `scrypt` may generate salt automatically for you but it has to have a source of entropy to generate it from. In languages like Java you have such cryptographically safe source, in pure, standard, portable version of C you don't.
Apr 23, 2014 at 7:25	comment	added	DarcyThomas		Forgive me but I thought scrypt generated the salt for you automatically.
Jul 22, 2012 at 5:41	history	edited	curiousguy		edited tags
Jul 21, 2012 at 8:20	history	edited	Andrei Botalov		edited tags
Feb 23, 2012 at 19:45	history	edited	AviD♦		edited tags
Jan 31, 2012 at 17:28	history	tweeted			twitter.com/#!/StackSecurity/status/164399768091627520
Jan 31, 2012 at 14:30	vote	accept	Alicja Kario
Jan 31, 2012 at 14:27	history	edited	Alicja Kario	CC BY-SA 3.0	rephrase to what I mean...
Jan 31, 2012 at 14:11	answer	added	Thomas Pornin		timeline score: 37
Jan 31, 2012 at 13:52	answer	added	woliveirajr		timeline score: 9
Jan 31, 2012 at 13:03	history	edited	Alicja Kario	CC BY-SA 3.0	note about crypt()
Jan 31, 2012 at 12:45	history	asked	Alicja Kario	CC BY-SA 3.0