Password Salting and Password Peppering: Which to choose?

Kartik J. 👷
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Password Salting and Password Peppering: Which to choose?

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Shrey Gupta
Peppering makes password hashes more secure compared to password salting. Even if attackers gain access to a password database, they will need to run hundred times more iterations to decode a password hashed with random pepper as compared to a password hashed with salt value. You can read this article for more understanding: https://mojoauth.com/blog/what-i...