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Challenge: Hashing passwords

Challenge: Hashing passwords

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Challenge: Hashing passwords

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- Well, hey there and welcome back. I know we just finished up, but well, the boss man's back on my back and, therefore, back on your back. We've been implementing that authentication system. Looks like our validation works but we started hashing our passwords and things went horribly awry. So the boss was like, "Hey, we need to fix this"; security team says, "we got some issues". And well, let me just show you what I'm talking about. We take a look at my screen here. It looks very similar. We already have that validation function but let's come down here and look at and I have things arranged a little differently so we can see left to right. We have this generate password hash. This comes from needing to store a password. If you're ever thinking about storing plain text passwords? No. Remember. No. Bad, shame, no. Now plain text passwords. I want to handle plain text passwords as little as possible. Mainly…

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