Greetings, Monks!

I'm using Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication to salt my users' passwords with a 10-digit salt, then hash them with SHA-256. From what I understand, this means 10 extra characters are appended to the end of each user-entered password and then the password+salt string is run through the SHA-256 digest, and the output of that is stored in the database password field.

It works, but I don't get how. After reading a bunch of docs (Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::05_Authentication, Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication, DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn, DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn::Digest) I still can't figure out how the hashes in the database are correctly reproduced when a user re-enters their password later.

Because where are the salts stored? Or how are they regenerated? Or am I not getting something fundamental about how salting/hashing works?

Thanks!

In reply to How is Catalyst storing my password salts?? by falseazure

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