Posts Tagged ‘sha-3’
About Secure Password Hashing
An often overlooked and misunderstood concept in application development is the one involving secure hashing of passwords. We have evolved from plain text password storage, to hashing a password, to appending salts and now even this is not considered adequate anymore. In this post I will discuss what hashing is, what salts and peppers are and which algorithms are to be used and which are to be avoided. more »