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Adding Salt to Hashing: A Better Way to Store Passwords

A salt is added to the hashing process to force their uniqueness, increase their complexity without increasing user requirements, and to mitigate password attacks like rainbow tables

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Adding Salt to Hashing: A Better Way to Store Passwords

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