Cooking with credentials – pepper
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No meal is complete without salt AND pepper. No password hashing scheme is truly secure without both, either!
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Cooking with credentials – salting
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Learn how to securely hash and anonymize user passwords in PHP using native functions that automatically apply salt.
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Cooking with credentials – the basics
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There are many ways to store user credentials for verification on the application side. Of all of them, only hashing is considered secure.
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Hashing is not encryption – redux
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Hashing and encryption are two different things, even if they’re built upon the same cryptographic foundation.
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Hashing is not encryption
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Encryption, encoding, and hashing are three related but distinct concepts. It’s important for you to understand all three.