Using “pepper” to increase password storing security
In a previous article I wrote how to securely store a password in the database. The article got the attention of many fellow developers and so I decided to improve it even more by writing this article. You see, even though it is very secure to store the password as a salted hash, there is an additional layer of security that can be added in order to make things even harder to crack: pepper. The “pepper” part is not meant...
