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Which of the following best describes the process of hashing a password?
Which of the following best describes the process of hashing a password?
- Transforming the password into a fixed-length string of characters (correct)
- Reversing the process to recover the original password
- Encrypting the password using a unique salt value
- Storing the password in plain text in the database
What makes it difficult to retrieve the original password from a hashed password in a database?
What makes it difficult to retrieve the original password from a hashed password in a database?
- Storing the salt value in plain text
- Storing the hash value in plain text
- Using a strong cryptographic algorithm (correct)
- Using a weak cryptographic algorithm
What is the purpose of a good hashing algorithm?
What is the purpose of a good hashing algorithm?
- To store the password in plain text
- To be reversible
- To be irreversible (correct)
- To encrypt the password
