CakePHP provides various security features to keep data or passwords safe.
* Security.salt is a hash that is used to encrypt or decrypt text messages in CakePHP.
Security::encrypt($text, $key, $hmacSalt = null)
Here,
$hmacSalt() is the salt to use for HMAC process. Null is used to defined to use Security.salt
* Security.cipherSeed is nothing but the key used to encrypt or dedcrypt the message in Security::cipher() function.
Security::encrypt($text, $key, $hmacSalt = null)
Here, $key is the 256 bit/32 byte cipher key or Security.cipherSeed
