Tag: sha-256

• The Logic behind Password Hashing

  This is a mirror of a post originally found here:  http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/211/how-to-securely-hash-passwords/31846#31846 The Theory We need to hash passwords as a second line of defence. A server which can authenticate users necessarily contains, somewhere in its entrails, some data which can be used to validate a password. A very simple system would just store the passwords themselves, and…

  Da:JAM

  2014/01/29

  Encryption, Information Security

  hash, password protection, salt, scrypt, sha-256