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Salting a password before it is hashed mainly protects against

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Salting a password before it is hashed mainly protects against

  • Adenial-of-service attacks
  • Bman-in-the-middle attacks
  • Crainbow-table (precomputed hash) attacks
  • Dphishing attacks
Correct answer: C

Explanation

A random salt makes every stored hash unique, so precomputed rainbow tables are useless and identical passwords no longer produce identical hashes.
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