14Mar
How bad would a Hash algorithm leak would be?
Context: When the Twitch whole code repository was leaked, it created multiple discussions on social medias. And one day I was on Reddit and said that the leak of the hashing algorithm and the salt would possibly put ALL of the website accounts in danger if the leaker also had acesss to the database with the hashed passwords. One guy told me that "it would do nothing, since most it would be impossible to decrypt even in this condition" and "trust him because he studied cybersecurity".
Still after some years this has been bugging me, what he said was true? If yes, how could it still be safe with the fact that the hashing algorithm would heavily help on decrypting a viable password?
