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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:50:01+00:00

bCrypt’s javadoc has this code for how to encrypt a password: String pw_hash =

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bCrypt’s javadoc has this code for how to encrypt a password:

String pw_hash = BCrypt.hashpw(plain_password, BCrypt.gensalt());

To check whether a plaintext password matches one that has been hashed previously, use the checkpw method:

if (BCrypt.checkpw(candidate_password, stored_hash))     System.out.println('It matches'); else     System.out.println('It does not match');

These code snippets imply to me that the randomly generated salt is thrown away. Is this the case, or is this just a misleading code snippet?

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  1. The salt is incorporated into the hash (encoded in a base64-style format).

    For example, in traditional Unix passwords the salt was stored as the first two characters of the password. The remaining characters represented the hash value. The checker function knows this, and pulls the hash apart to get the salt back out.

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