Cryptography, Hashing & Security

Passwords, Secrets & Tokens

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The Password Storage Problem — A History of Failures

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↗learner can explain why plaintext and plain-hash password storage are dangerous

↗learner can store and verify passwords using bcrypt or argon2 via passlib

↗learner can generate cryptographically secure tokens and random values with the secrets module

↗learner can compare sensitive tokens safely with secrets.compare_digest