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Utkarsh Yadav

Thanks @Médéric Burlet ❤
For helping people understand what Salt is...😊
And also thanks for contributing your code Example in this thread..

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And my purpose was not to explain only what salting is.. But how these stuff happens.. (ONLY BASICs) .

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Médéric Burlet

I think you dont have to put the code but explaining how to overcome the problem with salt is a good conclusion to the article. You can explain the generic concept how you add some random string to the original password and hash that so there is randomness in the password.

Of course salting has to be done properly and be secured in it's own way. This is why Bcrypt is very practical.