Salt (cryptography)
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title:
Salt (cryptography)
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In cryptography, a salt is random data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. Salting helps defend against attacks that use precomputed tables, by vastly growing the size of table needed for a successful attack. It also helps protect passwords that occur multiple times in a database, as a new salt is used for each password instance. Additionally, salting does not place any burden on users. Typically, a unique salt is randomly generated for ea
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Random data used as an additional input to a hash function
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
date created:
2004-06-03T18:48:12Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T16:00:39Z
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