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Salt

Random data added to a password before hashing to ensure that identical passwords produce different hash values, protecting against rainbow table and precomputed hash attacks.

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Encryption Decryption AES RSA SHA MD5 Hashing Pepper Rainbow Table Symmetric Encryption Asymmetric Encryption Public Key
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