What is Salt?
- Thread starter Bill3000
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It is a part of the hashing algorithm to make it safer.
For short passwords the chance is high that they are available in password databases.
To prevent that you basically add the salt to the actual password and then create the sha1 hash out of it.
So when you check if the password is correct you have to check if SHA1(password + salt) == savedPassword
For short passwords the chance is high that they are available in password databases.
To prevent that you basically add the salt to the actual password and then create the sha1 hash out of it.
So when you check if the password is correct you have to check if SHA1(password + salt) == savedPassword
Diath
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Actually to be precise password salting isn't a part of the hashing algorithm, it's just an additional input string.
