In hindsight I may be wrong on that last comment, I think the salt is
actually for Security::hash rather than the Auth component, something I've
never thought about before, apologies.


On 9 January 2015 at 11:07, Stephen S <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey
>
> If you check out the comments above these configuration values it should
> explain what they are for.
>
> When you use CakePHP's "Auth" component in your application, by default it
> will use the Security.salt value when it is hashing passwords and the like,
> it's a bad idea to keep this at the default value though you can introduce
> your own hashing methods if you desire.
>
> Likewise the cipherSeed is used for encryption and decryption rather than
> hashing.
>
> Some resources that might be helpful:
>
> What is Salt?
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5584620/what-is-salt-and-how-do-i-use-it
> Auth Documentation:
> http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/components/authentication.html
> Security Documentation:
> http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-utility-libraries/security.html
>
> Cheers
>
> On 7 January 2015 at 19:19, Cake.newbie <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>  Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> I just started using CakePHP today :) and i really didn't find an answer
>> for my questions.
>> What *Security.salt* and *Security.cipherSeed* are ?
>> Where/when/for what Security.salt and Security.cipherSeed are used ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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