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what is password salting?

15th Mar 2019, 10:25 PM
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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. In cryptography, a salt is random data that is used as an additional input to a one-way function that "hashes" data, apassword or passphrase. Salts are used to safeguard passwords in storage Source:Google
15th Mar 2019, 10:36 PM
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thanks that was helpful
15th Mar 2019, 10:38 PM
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16th Mar 2019, 12:00 AM
Russ
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Hi abba_ktg Here's what I found on Wikipedia I hope it helps 😊😊 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
16th Mar 2019, 7:15 AM
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