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pepper.
secret added to an input such as a password prior to being hashed with a cryptographic hash function and not stored alongside the hashed output (unlike a salt)
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In cryptography, a pepper is a secret added to an input such as a password during hashing with a cryptographic hash function. This value differs from a salt in that it is not stored alongside a password hash, but rather the pepper is kept separate using another mechanism, such as a Hardware Security Module (HSM). The National Institute of Standards and Technology refers to this value as a secret key rather than a pepper.
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