explanation of the salt statement
Hello together, I just saw the 'salt' Statement as I traces a login to MariaDB database. Could you explain me what this string is used for?
Answer
What you see it described here:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/connection-phase-packets.html#packet-Protocol::Handshake
the "salt" (which is not really a salt) is used like this:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/secure-password-authentication.html
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