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Question
Eve and Alice have the same 8 character password of 'password' for their Linux accounts. A simplified entry from /etc/shadow is displayed below. Which of the following explains why their MD5 hashes are different? Alice $1$ZxCnCjhq$H1COX0aY6XZ4dVF.1Njux1 Eve $1$IHLSRNty$kwokpFBzomNYph.ZVnHMv.
Options
- AUnique salts were used to create each MD5 hash.
- BPasswords are encrypted using the user's name and PID prior to hashing.
- CThe accounts were created at different times.
- DThe algorithm inserts random characters into the passphrases after hashing.
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