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A salt is a random addition to a password to make the hashed password less susceptible to a lookup table attack

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Web Service Authentication Using PBKDF2 and a Public Salt - Does the salt need to change on ...

The point of using salt is to prevent brute force attacks against multiple passwords at once. If they all have different salts your dictionary or rainbow table is only valid for one specific salt. …
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