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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? [duplicate]

Understand the need to protection credentials with hashes that are expensive and to use cryptographically random salts. …
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