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How To Safely Store A Password | codahale.com

Salt or no, if you’re using a general-purpose hash function designed for speed you’re well and truly effed.

bcrypt Solves These Problems

How? Basically, it’s slow as hell.

An interesting topic I've been studying recently: how to build a secure password storage system. This is an important component of that, i.e. use slow algorithms.

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