title: What is best possible way of salting and storing salt?
body: <p>I have read about password salting, but this might sound a little odd. But how do I store and secure the salt. For example in a multi tire architecture say I use the client machine’s GUID to generate my salt then the user gets restricted to a single machine but if I use random salt it has to be stored somewhere. Few days back I saw an sample application where the hash and the salt was generated on the client system whenever a new user was created and then the salted password and the hash is transmitted to the server where they are stored in SQL server. But if I follow this method and the database is compromised the passwords and the salt values for each password will be available to the X person. So, should I again salt/encrypt the passwords and received salt on server side? What is the best practice of salting?</p>