Salt question - using a "random salt"
- by barfoon
Hey everyone,
Further to my question here, I have another question regarding salts.
When someone says "use a random salt" to pre/append to a password, does this mean:
Creating a static a 1 time randomly generated string of characters, or
Creating a string of characters that changes at random every time a
password is created?
If the salt is random for every user and stored along with the hashed password, how is the original salt ever retrieved back for verification?
Thanks!