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🔒 Securing passwords with salting 🔒   What is password salting ? A strong password is all well and good. But it's not always enough in the face of attacks like brute force or rainbow tables. That's where salting comes in! Salt is the addition of a unique piece of data (called a “salt”) to each password before it is hashed. The result? Even if two users have the same password, their hashed fingerprint will be different. 🔐   Why is salt essential ? Without salt, two identical passwords would give the same hash. Hackers could then use rainbow table attacks to easily decrypt passwords. With random salt per user, these attacks are much more difficult, as each hash is unique. 🎯   Best practices : - Always use a unique, random salt per password. - Store the salt with the hashed fingerprint. - Use algorithms such as bcrypt, Argon2 or PBKDF2. - Never use fast hashing methods (too easy to break).   Password salting is a must to reinforce user data security.   💪 Are you already applying it? 🤔   #cybersecurity #computersecurity #password #security #wcomply