Password hashing and salting
Hashing is the process of turning a plain-text password into a unique, fixed-length string of characters that cannot be reversed. If you use the password BlueSky123, a hashing algorithm transforms it into something that looks like this: 7e8b61e20436a56e1b106f2e82f5b66d How It Works Unlike encryption, which is a two-way street (you can lock it and then unlock it with a … Read more