Against the recommendation of the IT security analyst, a company set all user passwords on a server as
"P@55w0rD". Upon review of the /etc/passwd file, an attacker found the following:
alice:a8df3b6c4fd75f0617431fd248f35191df8d237f
bob:2d250c5b2976b03d757f324ebd59340df96aa05e
chris:ea981ec3285421d014108089f3f3f997ce0f4150
Which of the following BEST explains why the encrypted passwords do not match?


A. Perfect forward secrecy
B. Key stretching
C. Salting
D. Hashing