Free CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Practice Question

By adding unique data to each password before hashing, the engineer ensures that identical passwords produce different hash values. This method, known as salting, enhances security by preventing attackers from recognizing duplicate passwords through identical hashes. Using different hashing algorithms for each user is impractical and doesn't scale well. Implementing asymmetric encryption is not standard practice for password storage and doesn't solve the problem of identical hashes from identical passwords. Storing passwords in plain text is inherently insecure and should be avoided.