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Why is it not good to directly store the hash of password in a file? How...

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Why is it not good to directly store the hash of password in afile? How can the use of salt enhance password security?

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Hashing passwords is the common approach to storing passwords securely A Hash is a oneway function that generates a representation of the password So when a user signs up for an account and they choose a password the password    See Answer
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