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    PracticeCPA®CPA ISC Practice Exam 2Question 56
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Area II: SecurityConfidentialityArea II

    CPA · Question 56 · Area II: Security

    A company stores customer passwords in a database. To enhance security, they add a random string of characters to each password before hashing it. This technique is known as:

    Answer options:

    A.

    Peppering

    B.

    Salting

    C.

    Masking

    D.

    Tokenization

    How to approach this question

    Identify the term for adding random data to hashes.

    Full Answer

    B.Salting✓ Correct
    Salting ensures that even if two users have the same password, their hashes are different.

    Common mistakes

    Confusing Salting with Key stretching.
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