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password salting

password salting noun: a technique employed to protect passwords stored in a database by attaching a string of 32 or more characters and then hashing them.

Noun

password salting (countable and uncountable, plural password saltings)

  1. A technique employed to protect passwords stored in a database by attaching a string of 32 or more characters and then hashing them.

Forms of password salting

pluralpassword saltings

Questions about password salting

What does password salting mean?
Password salting means a technique employed to protect passwords stored in a database by attaching a string of 32 or more characters and then hashing them.
What part of speech is password salting?
Password salting is a noun.
What is the plural of password salting?
The plural of password salting is password saltings.

Words near password salting in the dictionary

  1. passwoman
  2. passwomen
  3. password
  4. password child
  5. password children
  6. password salting
  7. password saltings
  8. password wallet
  9. password wallets
  10. passwordable
  11. passworded

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