Yahoo Login drops Salted Hashes
This morning Vinaya pointed out that Yahoo login is not using salted hashes now. Instead, all logins - both standard and secure - work over SSL.
All the old code for salted hashes is still strewn on the yahoo login page. It’s just that the password hashes are not calculated any longer. Is this a bug? Or has Yahoo dropped the Salted Hash scheme for good? Watch this space for upcoming news :)
If you’re wondering what’s so special about salted hashes, you might want to check these earlier posts.
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For a newby like me with Yahoo, have I got something to worry
about when I login.? I logged in Tonight and I had a Secure site came up and disapeared is this the "New Yahoo"?
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Probably they are preparing for the new Yahoo Mail, which is currently under beta testing.