Adding Spice to Security: Understanding Password Salting

Have you ever heard about the term “Salting”? if you’re thinking about adding salt to your recipe to make it taste better then you’re right. Although Salting is also a Computer Science jargon which means adding a string of 32 or more characters and then hashing them. Salting prevents hackers from breaching an enterprise environment.

Password Salting Illustration

Benefits of Salting :

• Password salting increases password complexity, making them unique and secure without affecting the user experience.
• It also prevents from reverse-engineering password, hash table attacks
• It slows down brute-force and dictionary attacks.

How password salting works

With password salting, a random piece of data is concatenated to the password before it runs through the hashing algorithm, making it unique and harder to crack.

When using both hashing and salting, even if two users choose the same password, salting adds random characters to each password when one enters them. 

Salting enhances password security by adding unique strings before hashing, making it harder for attackers to reverse-engineer passwords and mitigating risks associated with brute-force attacks.