The title says everything. I don’t understand: why you shouldn’t keep your salt a secret like the password. Or did I misunderstand something?
The title says everything. I don’t understand: why you shouldn’t keep your salt a
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The title says everything. I don’t understand: why you shouldn’t keep your salt a secret like the password. Or did I misunderstand something?
The reason as I found in this article is, that you actually need the salt to check an incoming password with the salted and hashed one in your database.