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Saravana Thiyagarajan
Backend Engineer | Emerging Solution Architect Designing and building scalable systems with a focus on performance & reliability.
Definitions Hashing converts plaintext data elements into consistent ciphertext outputs for data verification. Salting adds random characters to data, like passwords, to stop hackers from looking for consistent words and phrases in sensitive data to ...
Sure, Thanks for the response. let me update the article as you suggested
James Gallagher
James on Hacking
Well done post. One clarification: Salted hashes can still be cracked. It just takes more effort and time and the hashes can't be looked up in hash databases. Hashcat, for instance, will accept salted hashes.
Saravana Thiyagarajan
Backend Engineer | Emerging Solution Architect Designing and building scalable systems with a focus on performance & reliability.
Sure, Thanks for the response. let me update the article as you suggested