{"id":3321,"date":"2023-12-03T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/comptia-security-sy0-601-question095\/"},"modified":"2023-12-03T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T18:50:00","slug":"comptia-security-sy0-601-question095","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/comptia-security-sy0-601-question095\/","title":{"rendered":"CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 &#8211; Question095"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">Against the recommendation of the IT security analyst, a company set all user passwords on a server as<br \/>\n&quot;P@55w0rD&quot;. Upon review of the \/etc\/passwd file, an attacker found the following:<br \/>\nalice:a8df3b6c4fd75f0617431fd248f35191df8d237f<br \/>\nbob:2d250c5b2976b03d757f324ebd59340df96aa05e<br \/>\nchris:ea981ec3285421d014108089f3f3f997ce0f4150<br \/>\nWhich of the following BEST explains why the encrypted passwords do not match?<br \/>\n<br \/><strong><br \/>A.<\/strong> Perfect forward secrecy<br \/><strong>B.<\/strong> Key stretching<br \/><strong>C.<\/strong> Salting<br \/><strong>D.<\/strong> Hashing<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<style> .hidden-div{ display:none } <\/style>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button onclick=\"getElementById('hidden-div').style.display = 'block'\"> Show Answer <\/button> <button onclick=\"getElementById('hidden-div').style.display = 'none'\">Hide Answer<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"hidden-div\" id=\"hidden-div\"><span style=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">Correct Answer: <strong>C<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"explanation\">\nReference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/searchsecurity\/definition\/salt#:~:text=What%20is%20password%\" title=\"External link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/searchsecurity\/definition\/salt#:~:text=W&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n20salting%3F,stealing%20them%20from%20the%20database<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the recommendation of the IT security analyst, a company set all user passwords on a server as &quot;P@55w0rD&quot;. 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 secrecyB. Key stretchingC. SaltingD. Hashing Show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,98],"class_list":["post-3321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comptia-security-sy0-601","tag-comptia-security-sy0-601","tag-question-095"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}