How to Store Passwords - A Tutorial on Hashing and Salting

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In this tutorial, we attempt to decrypt the world of password storage and answer such questions as: How are passwords stored in a way that's safe? What are some of the ways that these safeguards can be attacked? What is a salt and what makes a good cryptographic hash function? What is SHA-1 and why shouldn't we use it anymore?

Watch this video to learn:

- How to safely store passwords
- How hash functions work
- The benefits of salting one's hashes







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password storage
How to Store Passwords
Hashing
Salting