Passwords: salting, hashing, and key derivation
A serious website never knows your password: it only keeps a hash of it. This course explains why hashing alone is not enough, how attacks (brute force, dictionary, rainbow tables) work, and how salting and slow functions like Argon2 protect modern accounts.
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Table of contents
- 01
Storing a password without storing it
- 02
Modern defenses