What is the value of salting password hashes?

The correct answer is C. Rainbow Tables cannot be used to crack the password. Linux and Unix facilitate using salts that are unique to each user and used as a seed during the password hashing process. The salt assures that password hashes are unique and prevents any form of pre-created encryption dictionaries (e.g. Rainbow Tables) being used to crack the

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AFull encryption in the SAM database
BStrong encryption algorithms are enforced
CRainbow Tables cannot be used to crack the password
DDictionary password guessing attacks can't be used

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B
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C
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D
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Linux and Unix facilitate using salts that are unique to each user and used as a seed during the password hashing process. The salt assures that password hashes are unique and prevents any form of pre-created encryption dictionaries (e.g. Rainbow Tables) being used to crack the

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