Ultimate Password Storage Tier List: Encryption, Hashing, Salting & More ๐
Learn the best practices for securely storing user passwords in your app. Discover effective methods like encryption, hashing, salting, and advanced techniques to protect user data and prevent breaches.

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314.3K views โข Jul 20, 2021

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If you're building an app or product, you _need_ to store your users' passwords securely. There's terrible ways to do it, like storing them in plaintext or encrypting them, slightly better ways like hashing or hashing and salting, and even better ways like bcrypt, scrypt, or argon.
Sources:
https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a270c40
https://github.com/corkami/collisions#fastcoll-md5
00:00 Intro
00:26 F Tier: Plaintext
00:55 D Tier: Encryption
01:50 C Tier: Hashing
05:22 B Tier: Hashing + Salting
06:55 A Tier: Slow Hashing
08:45 S Tier: Don't Store Passwords
09:18 Recap
Sources:
https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a270c40
https://github.com/corkami/collisions#fastcoll-md5
00:00 Intro
00:26 F Tier: Plaintext
00:55 D Tier: Encryption
01:50 C Tier: Hashing
05:22 B Tier: Hashing + Salting
06:55 A Tier: Slow Hashing
08:45 S Tier: Don't Store Passwords
09:18 Recap
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