What is Password Salting?

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Salting generally just appends a string to your password prior to it being ran through the hashing algorithm.Salting makes it so rainbow tables are no longer effective.
Using Salt: %3jU
MD5 Hashes with salted passwords
However, not even 830 Billion is enough for this rainbow table to find any of these common passwords now.
The salt-string should be randomly generated for each entry, and housed in a separate table just to make things more difficult



Reference: The rainbow table I am using above isHashkiller.co.uk: which boasts of over 830 BILLION unique decrypted MD5 hashes since 2007. 

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