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Created September 18, 2013 05:15
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Simple salting of a password using CSPRNG(Cryptographically Secure Pseudo-Random Number Generator)
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salting_password.py
import os
import hashlib
def secure_password(password):
#This ensures that no two passwords have the same hash
salt = os.urandom(10)
return hashlib.sha256(salt + password).hexdigest()
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