What is salting?

Salting is the process of adding a random string of characters to a password before it is hashed. The salt value is unique to each password, and it helps to prevent attackers from using precomputed rainbow tables to crack passwords. When a user creates a password, the salt is generated and added to the password before it is hashed and stored in a database. When the user logs in, the salt is retrieved from the database and added to the password they entered, and the resulting hash is compared to the one stored in the database. Salting is an important security measure that helps to make password cracking more difficult and time-consuming for attackers.

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