Learn what password hashing is, why it is important, and how to use popular hash functions in Python, PHP, and JavaScript for web security and authentication.

password-hash is a node.js library to simplify use of hashed passwords. Storing passwords in plain-text is bad. This library makes the storing of passwords (and subsequent validation of) hashed ...

A fullstack online web application project made with vanilla Node.js and no frontend frameworks. Uses MongoDB for the database and implements session based authentication. Minimal imported code, e.g I ...

A hashing algorithm encrypts passwords with no possibility of decryption. However, if the bad guys have a table of the hash results for all possible values, all they need to get yours is a simple ...