Top "Password-hash" questions

A password hash is a hash digest of a password obtained using a one-way hashing algorithm (not to be confused with [password-encryption]). Password hashes differ from regular hash functions in that they are designed to be slow and consume CPU and/or memory resources in order to make them harder to crack.

Password encryption at client side

Possible Duplicate: About password hashing system on client side I have to secure the passwords of my web site users. …

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How to use PHP's password_hash to hash and verify passwords

Recently I have been trying to implement my own security on a log in script I stumbled upon on the …

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

Is hashing a password twice before storage any more or less secure than just hashing it once? What I'm talking …

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How can I store my users' passwords safely?

How much more safe is this than plain MD5? I've just started looking into password security. I'm pretty new to …

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Node.js hashing of passwords

I am currently using the following for hashing passwords: var pass_shasum = crypto.createHash('sha256').update(req.body.password).…

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What is currently the most secure one-way encryption algorithm?

As many will know, one-way encryption is a handy way to encrypt user passwords in databases. That way, even the …

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How to check username and password matches the database values

I'm really sorry if the question looks silly. But I've been trying for days to check my username and password …

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Best Practices: Salting & peppering passwords?

I came across a discussion in which I learned that what I'd been doing wasn't in fact salting passwords but …

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Call to undefined function password_hash()

I am running php version 5.4.16 on localhost right now, while I am developing my site. I want to use password_…

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Mysql password hashing method old vs new

I'm trying to connect to a mysql server at dreamhost from a php scrip located in a server at slicehost (…

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