First the passphrase and salt are hashed together, yielding an MD5 message digest. Passwords on the live site were hashed using the bcrypt algorithm. Both the salt value and hashed value are stored. Blocks hold batches of valid transactions that are hashed and encoded into a Merkle tree. The breach included the loss of user names, hashed passwords, addresses and e-mails. A fixed salt is when a programmer uses the same salt for every hashed password. The hashed numbers are thereafter discarded from the server. Second, additional memory needs to be allocated for the new hashed sequences. The 52-bit address is hashed, then used as an index into the off-chip table. Let the universe to be hashed be formula 71. According to McDonald, the writer hashed out a script in 48 hours.