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Credentials in security context are elements that prove your identity to a system, for example a username and password or a client-side certificate. It is usually used to describe elements supplied by the authenticating client, not when the server authenticates to the client or in mutual authentication schemes.
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Why store a salt along side the hashed password?
I can see where you're coming from, but the answer is basically "that's not what the salt is for". If I'm trying to discover a particular user's password, the salt doesn't help much if it's right bes …
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