salt-cryptography

what’s salt in cryptography

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• salt is a random string that is appended to a password before hashing
  • hashed = hash(password + salt)
• salt and hashed will be stored in the server database
• each password has its own salt
• the purpose is to add randomness to each password
• if the whole db is leaked, even the same password will have different hash

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