Top "Salt" questions

Why can bcrypt.hashpw be used both for hashing and verifying passwords?

Using bcrypt with Python 2.7, I can see that the example uses the bcrypt.hashpw to both hash a password for …

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Web app passwords: bcrypt and SHA256 (and scrypt)

With all the recent (e.g. LinkedIn) discussions of passwords I'm looking at password hashing implementations. After two cups of …

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Spring Security salt for custom UserDetails

I would like to add salt like: PasswordEncoder encoder = new ShaPasswordEncoder(); userDetails.setPassword(encoder.encodePassword(userDetails.getPassword(),saltSource.getSalt(userDetails)); …

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How would you add salt to your existing password hashes?

I have a database of hashed passwords that had no salt added before they were hashed. I want to add …

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How does salt work in Rails' has_secure_password

From what I understand from salting to make an encrypted password more secure, I would generate a random number (the …

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how does password hash+salt work

I though I understood hashing and salting passwords but it seems I have some misconceptions. I am creating a user …

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