password storage

Password storage in summary

• Albert Zenkoff
• 2012-07-29
• Technology, bcrypt, hash, hashing, hashing algorithm, Password, password schemes, password storage, passwords

We discussed the password storage in the article Speaking of passwords…and concluded that password implementation requires a cryptographically strong, contemporary (as in “very, very slow”) one-way hash function with a randomly generated salt for every password. This is pretty much all you need to take care of. Salting is fairly straight-forward but it is essential to ...

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