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Password Security
password hashing and other things
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Computer Science
Undergraduate 4
07/30/2014

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What's a form of encryption that should be used on all of the stored passwords on a computer system?
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Hashing
Term
What should be added to hashed passwords so that they're nearly impossible to crack?
Definition
Salts
Term
What is a salt?
Definition
A salt is two characters that are added by the user to the hashed function so that if someone did get access to their file that contains their password they won't be able to crack it very quickly (will be forced to brute force crack each salt)
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What dictates what actions users can perform on different files?
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