Glossary term
What is Salt?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Salt" means: Random data mixed into a password before hashing, so equal passwords give different hashes. It is taught in Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs and Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals. Related terms include Hash, Session token, Migration and Authentication and authorization. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 2 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Salt?
Random data mixed into a password before hashing, so equal passwords give different hashes. (From Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs. 1 other course defines it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Salt mean in Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs?
Random data mixed into a password before hashing, so equal passwords give different hashes.
What does Salt mean in Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals?
Random extra data mixed into a password before hashing, so two people with the same password get different hashes.
Where is Salt taught?
Salt is defined in Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs and Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals.
Node.js: Build the Back End and APIsCybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals
Which lessons cover Salt?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs, lesson 4.1: Store passwords the safe way
- Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals, lesson 3.3: Passwords: How They Are Stored and Guessed
Which terms are related to Salt?
Next to Salt in the course glossaries: Hash, Session token, Migration, Authentication and authorization, Placeholder, Origin and CORS, SQL injection, Environment variable, Phishing and Encryption.
HashSession tokenMigrationAuthentication and authorizationPlaceholderOrigin and CORSSQL injectionEnvironment variablePhishingEncryption
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Salt?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at intermediate and beginner level:
- Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs: Basic JavaScript: variables, functions, objects, arrays, conditions and loops.
- Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals: No security, networking or programming experience is needed.