Encoding, Encryption, and Hashing Explained: Understand the Key Differences 🔐

Confusing encryption, encoding and hashing may have disastrous consequences - especially since it can cause misunderstandings in the way security is implemented. In this video, Jess Temporal will walk you through a high-level overview of these concepts to help you be more secure in your applications.

Links:

- The blog post with the content of this video and a visual cheatsheet: https://auth0.com/blog/encoding-encryption-hashing/

- The JWT handbook: https://auth0.com/resources/ebooks/jwt-handbook

- Storing passwords using hashing: https://auth0.com/blog/hashing-passwords-one-way-road-to-security/

- How to use salt to store them properly: https://auth0.com/blog/adding-salt-to-hashing-a-better-way-to-store-passwords/

- The more technical comparison of encoding, encryption, and hashing: https://auth0.com/blog/how-secure-are-encryption-hashing-encoding-and-obfuscation/


Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:43 What is Encoding?
02:06 Conversion Tables
02:55 Encoding and Decoding a JWT
04:21 What is Encryption?
06:49 Key-based Encryption Algorithms
08:04 What is Hashing?
08:45 Hashing Algorithm Features
10:15 Recap and Final Thoughts


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