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Salting

Salting is a way to make passwords more secure. When you make a password, it gets hashed, which means it gets turned into a bunch of letters and numbers that are hard to read. But sometimes bad people can guess what the password might be, especially if they have a lot of time or they use a special program to help them guess.

So when we salt a password, that means we add some extra letters or numbers to it before we hash it. The salt is like a secret code that only the computer knows. When someone tries to guess the password, they have to guess the salt too, and that’s really hard.

So salting helps keep passwords safer, because even if a bad person guesses the password, they probably won’t guess the salt too.