Salting is a cryptographic technique used to enhance security during the hashing process. It involves adding random data, known as “salt,” to user data before hashing.
Key Features:
- Prevents attacks such as rainbow table attacks by ensuring unique hashes for identical inputs.
- Increases the complexity of hash calculations, making it harder for attackers to reverse-engineer passwords.
- Each user typically receives a unique salt value stored alongside their hashed password.
Benefits:
- Enhances password security significantly.
- Protects against precomputed hash attacks.
- Ensures that even if two users have the same password, their hashed values will differ.
Salting is commonly used in password storage systems to safeguard user credentials from unauthorised access