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Passwords are stored in Moodle in an encrypted form, called an ‘md5 hash’. Password salting is a way of making passwords more secure by adding a random string of characters to passwords before their md5 hash is calculated, which makes them harder to reverse (the longer the random string, the harder you make it).
