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Discussion on: What's The Name of This Password Management Technique and is it a Good Idea?

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anes • Edited

I actually wrote an article about this technique quite recently. It is called "peppering". Then there is also "salting" which adds a random string onto the password. Those techniques aren't used to be hidden from the hacker, but rather to scramble the resulting hash. If you are interested in going a bit more in depth: I have an article about exactly this technique.

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Benjamin Bryant

Thanks! I gave your article a look. I think peppering is the closet descriptor. Though I guess this is a weird version, since you'd have to add it yourself manually each time you log in anywhere.

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anes

Yes, that's what also threw me off, but I think if you really want to search for a "fitting" phrase I would say you can call it "peppering"