Is “double hashing” a password less secure than just hashing it once?

Question

Is hashing a password twice before storage any more or less secure than just hashing it once?

What I\'m talking about is doing this:

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Answer 1

Double hashing is ugly because it's more than likely an attacker has built a table to come up with most hashes. Better is to salt your hashes, and mix hashes together. There are also new schemas to "sign" hashes (basically salting), but in a more secure manner.